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Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N I. A multiple planetary system around the red giant star TYC 1422-614-1

Journal

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 573, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424399

Keywords

planets and satellites: detection; planets and satellites: individual: TYC 1422 614 1; planetary systems; stars: late-type

Funding

  1. Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N203 510938]
  2. Polish National Science Centre [UMO-2012/07/B/ST9/04415, UMO-2012/05/N/ST9/03836]
  3. Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN)
  4. Plan Nacional de Astronomia y Astrofisica [AYA2010-20630]
  5. Marie Curie [FP7-People-RG268111]
  6. NASA [NNX09AB36G]
  7. Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education through the Iuventus Plus [IP2011 031971]
  8. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [AYA-2011-29060]
  9. Pennsylvania State University
  10. Eberly College of Science
  11. Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium

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Context. Stars that have evolved off the main sequence are crucial for expanding the frontiers of knowledge on exoplanets toward higher stellar masses and for constraining star-planet interaction mechanisms. These stars have an intrinsic activity, however, which complicates the interpretation of precise radial velocity (RV) measurements, and therefore they are often avoided in planet searches. Over the past ten years, we have monitored about 1000 evolved stars for RV variations in search for low-mass companions under the Penn State - Torun Centre for Astronomy Planet Search program with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Selected prospective candidates that required higher RV precision measurements have been followed with HARPS-N at the 3.6 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. Aims. We aim to detect planetary systems around evolved stars, to be able to build sound statistics on the frequency and intrinsic nature of these systems, and to deliver in-depth studies of selected planetary systems with evidence of star-planet interaction processes. Methods. We obtained 69 epochs of precise RV measurements for TYC 1422-614-1 collected over 3651 days with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, and 17 epochs of ultra-precise HARPS-N data collected over 408 days. We complemented these RV data with photometric time-series from the All Sky Automatic Survey archive. Results. We report the discovery of a multiple planetary system around the evolved K2 giant star TYC 1422-614-1. The system orbiting the 1.15 M-circle dot star is composed of a planet with mass m sin i = 2.5 M-J in a 0.69 AU orbit, and a planet or brown dwarf with m sin i = 10 M-J in an orbit of 1.37 AU. The multiple planetary system orbiting TYC 1422-614-1 is the first finding of the TAPAS project, a HARPS-N monitoring of evolved planetary systems identified with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope.

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