TOI-2180 b

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TOI-2180 b
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Discovery
Discovered by The TESS-Keck Survey
Discovery dateFebruary 2022
Transit Method
Designations
HD 238894 b
Orbital characteristics
0.828±0.012  au [1]
Eccentricity 0.3683 ± 0.0073 [1]
260.15764 ± 0.00045 days [2]
Inclination 89.955+0.032
−0.044 [1]
Star HD 238894
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
1.010+0.022
−0.019 RJ
Mass 2.755+0.087
−0.081 MJ [1]
3.827+0.012
−0.015 dex [1]
Temperature 348.0+3.3
−3.6 K [1]

    TOI-2180 b is a giant exoplanet orbiting the G-type star TOI-2180, also known as HD 238894. [1] It was discovered with the help of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and is currently the exoplanet with the longest orbital period TESS was able to uncover (as of September 2022). [3] TOI-2180 b orbits its host star every 260.16 days. [2]

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    Discovery

    TOI-2180 b was first identified as an exoplanet candidate due to a single transit with TESS at 12./13. December 2019 by a group of citizen scientists called the Visual Survey Group, which includes Thomas Lee Jacobs, a former U.S. naval officer. [4] The group was using the light curve processing tool lcTools. In May 2020 the Planet Hunters: TESS collaboration announced this object as a Community TESS Object of Interest (CTOI) and it was soon promoted into a regular TOI. [1]

    The TESS-Keck Survey collaboration performed radial velocity follow-up observations for nearly 2 years with the Automated Planet Finder and Keck I. The follow-up observations uncovered that the single transit was caused by a long-period planet. [1]

    Orbital properties

    TOI-2180 b has a long orbital period of 260.16 days, [2] which also leads to a long transit duration of 24 hours. [1] The distance to the host star is 82.8% the sun-earth distance. [1] The planet does not orbit inside the habitable zone, despite this close resemblance in semi-major axis. [5] TOI-2180 b has a high eccentricity of the orbit at 0.37. [1]

    The second transit was not detected from the ground and the third transit was not observed. [1] The fourth transit was observed at 31. January/01. February 2022, refining the orbital period. The next transit will occur on 2022 October 18 at 21:28 UTC. [2]

    Physical properties

    The planet has the same size as Jupiter, but is 2.8 times heavier than Jupiter. TOI-2180 b stand out because of its cold estimated temperature of about 348 Kelvin (74.9 °C, 166.7 °F). [1] This is closer to Jupiters 165 K than most discovered giant exoplanets. TOI-2180 b belongs to a small sample of temperature Jupiters with a temperature <400 K that transit, such as Kepler-167 e, WD 1856+534 b, Kepler-1704 b, KOI-3680 b, Kepler-1514 b and Kepler-539 b. TOI-2180 b has by far the brightest host star with a visual magnitude of 9.16, which is about 3 magnitudes brighter than the next brightest system in this sample. [5]

    The planet is likely enriched in metals compared to its host star. The discovery team inferred that TOI-2180 b is enriched in metals by a factor of about 5 compared to its host star. This means it has about 100 ME of heavy elements in its envelope and interior. [1]

    Future observations

    The exoplanet is a poor target for transmission spectroscopy because of its high surface gravity and the large radius of the host star. The large radius of the star causes a relative shallow transit depth of about 0.5%. The system is still an excellent target to find rings and exomoons around TOI-2180 b. It is also a good target to study the migration of exoplanets. [1] It could be one of the best targets for exomoon searches. [6]

    Host star

    The host star is a 9.16 magnitude [7] bright and slightly evolved star with a spectral type of G5. It has a mass of 1.1 M☉ and a radius of 1.6 R☉. The radius is increased due to the evolved nature of the star. The star is 116 parsec (379 light-years) distant from earth and has an age of about 8.1 billion years. [1]

    Habitable Zone

    Currently the habitable zone around TOI-2180 is between 1.5 and 2.2 astronomical units. [1] [note 1] Because TOI-2180 is slightly evolved, it had a habitable zone closer to the star in the past. At an age of about 3 billion years the habitable zone was located between 1.1 and 1.6 astronomical units. [1] [8] [note 2]

    Outer planet candidate

    The radial velocity monitoring also showed acceleration of TOI 2180 b due to an outer planet or low-mass star in the system. [1] A later analysis of RV data has shown that an outer companion has an orbital period of 1558+68
    −19     days, an eccentricity of about 0.31 and a minimum mass of 3.94+0.27
    −0.22    MJ, making it likely a giant planet. The acceleration (TTV) and the outer companion detected in the RV could be the same object. [6]

    Notes

    1. ↑ Using a luminosity of 2.544 by Dalba et al. and using step 2 by Morris
    2. ↑ Using MIST evolutionary track with initial mass=1.115 Msun (best match from isochromes), initial metallicity [Fe/H]=0.269 (Delba et al for TOI-2180) and using synthetic photometry output UBV etc. Then the approach by Morris was used, assuming the star was an F-type back then.

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