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HD 76920 b pinned down: A detailed analysis of the most eccentric planetary system around an evolved star

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2021.8

Keywords

planetary systems; stars; individual; HD; 76920; techniques; radial velocities

Funding

  1. Australian Research Council [DP170103491]
  2. CONICYT through project Fondecyt [1171364]
  3. CONICYT through project Anillo [ACT-1417]
  4. CONICYT [2117053]
  5. Heising-Simons Foundation
  6. Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [2014.0017]
  7. Swedish Research Council [2017-04945]
  8. Walter Gyllenberg Foundation of the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund
  9. FONDECYT Project [11200751]
  10. CORFO project [14ENI2-26865]
  11. 'Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS)' of the Millenium Science Initiative, Chilean Ministry of Economy [IC120009]
  12. Swedish Research Council [2017-04945] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council

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This study presents 63 new multi-site radial velocity measurements of the K1III giant HD 76920, confirming the highly eccentric nature of the known planet orbiting it. By combining measurements from different instruments, the highly eccentric system was characterized further, showing a minimum planet mass of 3.13 M-J and an orbital period of 415.891 d. The analysis also revealed the planet's close distance to its host star at periastron and the lack of significant orbital decay in the near future.
We present 63 new multi-site radial velocity (RV) measurements of the K1III giant HD 76920, which was recently reported to host the most eccentric planet known to orbit an evolved star. We focused our observational efforts on the time around the predicted periastron passage and achieved near-continuous phase coverage of the corresponding RV peak. By combining our RV measurements from four different instruments with previously published ones, we confirm the highly eccentric nature of the system and find an even higher eccentricity of , an orbital period of 415.891(-0.039)(+0.043) d, and a minimum mass of 3.13(-0.43)(+0.41) M-J for the planet. The uncertainties in the orbital elements are greatly reduced, especially for the period and eccentricity. We also performed a detailed spectroscopic analysis to derive atmospheric stellar parameters, and thus the fundamental stellar parameters (M-*, R-*, L-*) taking into account the parallax from Gaia DR2, and independently determined the stellar mass and radius using asteroseismology. Intriguingly, at periastron, the planet comes to within 2.4 stellar radii of its host star's surface. However, we find that the planet is not currently experiencing any significant orbital decay and will not be engulfed by the stellar envelope for at least another 50-80 Myr. Finally, while we calculate a relatively high transit probability of 16%, we did not detect a transit in the TESS photometry.

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