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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 155, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa9791
Keywords
open clusters and associations: individual (Hyades); planetary systems; planets and satellites: detection; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; stars: fundamental parameters; stars: low-mass
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- Hubble Fellowship - Space Telescope Science Institute [51364]
- NASA [NAS 5-26555, NAS5-26555]
- NASA K2 Guest Observer Cycle 4 [NNX17AF71G]
- US National Science Foundation [AST-1229522]
- University of Texas at Austin
- Korean GMT Project of KASI
- NASA Office of Space Science [NNX09AF08G]
- Robert Martin Ayers Sciences Fund
- NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program
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Planets in young clusters are powerful probes of the evolution of planetary systems. Here we report the discovery of three planets transiting EPIC. 247589423, a late-K dwarf in the Hyades (similar or equal to 800 Myr) cluster, and robust detection limits for additional planets in the system. The planets were identified from their K2 light curves as part of our survey of young clusters and star-forming regions. The smallest planet has a radius comparable to Earth (0.99(-0.04)(+0.06)R(circle plus)), making it one of the few Earth-sized planets with a known, young age. The two larger planets are likely a mini-Neptune and a super-Earth, with radii of 2.91(-0.10)(+0.11)R(circle plus) and 1.45(-0.08)(+0.11)R(circle plus), respectively. The predicted radial velocity signals from these planets are between 0.4 and 2 m s(-1), achievable with modern precision RV spectrographs. Because the target star is bright (V = 11.2) and has relatively low-amplitude stellar variability for a young star (2-6 mmag), EPIC. 247589423 hosts the best known planets in a young open cluster for precise radial velocity follow-up, enabling a robust test of earlier claims that young planets are less dense than their older counterparts.
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