期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 486, 期 4, 页码 5094-5103出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1084
关键词
techniques: photometric; planets and satellites: detection; stars: individual: NGTS-4 planetary systems
资金
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/M001962/1]
- STFC [ST/L000733/1, ST/P000495/1, ST/N000757/1, ST/P000312/1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Winton Philanthropies in the form of a Winton Exoplanet Fellowship
- Fondecyt grant [1161218]
- CATA-Basal (PB06, CONICYT)
- STFC via an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship [ST/R00384X/1]
- DFG priority program SPP 1992 'Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets' [RA 714/13-1]
- Gruber Foundation
- European Research Council under the FP/2007-2013 ERC Grant [336480]
- ARC grant for Concerted Research Actions - Wallonia-Brussels Federation
- Simons Foundation (PI Queloz) [327127]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program
- STFC [ST/M001962/1, ST/L000733/1, ST/R00384X/1, ST/M002004/1, 2025424, ST/P000495/1, ST/S000623/1, 1622607, ST/N000757/1, ST/S002642/1, ST/R003726/1, ST/P000312/1, 1795021] Funding Source: UKRI
We report the discovery of NGTS-4b, a sub-Neptune-sized planet transiting a 13th magnitude K-dwarf in a 1.34 d orbit. NGTS-4b has a mass M = 20.6 +/- 3.0 M and radius R = 3.18 +/- 0.26 R , which places it well within the so-called Neptunian Desert. The mean density of the planet (3.45 +/- 0.95 g cm(-3)) is consistent with a composition of 100 per cent H2O or a rocky core with a volatile envelope. NGTS-4b is likely to suffer significant mass loss due to relatively strong EUV/X-ray irradiation. Its survival in the Neptunian desert may be due to an unusually high-core mass, or it may have avoided the most intense X-ray irradiation by migrating after the initial activity of its host star had subsided. With a transit depth of 0.13 +/- 0.02 per cent, NGTS-4b represents the shallowest transiting system ever discovered from the ground, and is the smallest planet discovered in a wide-field ground-based photometric survey.
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