The Longest-period Young Transiting Exoplanets. A Duo of Puffy Giants inside a Debris Disk
Carlos del Burgo, Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, Ana Heras Pastor, Jonathan P. Marshall, Peter J. Wheatley, Edward M. Bryant, Samuel Gill, Jorge Fernández Fernández, David R. Anderson, Matthew P. Battley, Edward Gillen, Solène Ulmer-Moll, James McCormac, Monika Lendl, Ioannis Apergis, Faith Hawthorn, James S. Jenkins, Maximiliano Moyano, Louise D. Nielsen, Alexis M. S. Smith, Suman Saha, Stéphane Udry, Jose I. Vines, Richard G. West, Daniel Bayliss, Hugh P. Osborn, Tristan Guillot, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Olga Suarez, Matteo Beltrame, Abdelkrim Agabi, Isabella Pagano, Matthew J. Hooton, Matthew R. Burleigh, Lyu Abe, Philippe Bendjoya, Georgina Dransfield, Djamel Mékarnia
astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR
Submitted: 2026-07-02
Comments: Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Journal ref: ApJ Letters, 1003, L15 (16 pp.) 2026
Code: https://github.com/lgrcia/eloy
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We identify two large-radius planets around the F-type star HD 114082 as the longest-period young transiting exoplanets known.
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Abstract
We identify two large-radius planets around the F-type star HD 114082 as the longest-period young transiting exoplanets known. From the first transit, detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and a second dip, spotted by the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), we predicted mid-transit times for HD 114082 b (planet b). We pinpoint its orbit (period Pb= 225.5504 plus or minus 0.0004 days) from a third transit captured with the ESA's CHaracterising ExOplanet Satellite and the upgraded Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets telescope (ASTEP+), alongside orbit-discriminating observations. Another dimming partly covered by ASTEP+ completes the four-transit series. We support with dynamical evidence the planetary nature of a deeper transit detected with TESS and NGTS, identifying planet c. Additionally, we reexamine the debris disk, fitting its excess emission with two dust components. Fundamental stellar parameters are inferred from stellar evolution models, while a joint modeling of photometric and radial-velocity time series yields the planetary parameters, with masses further constrained using an N-body code. For planet b, the semimajor axis a b = 0.791 plus or minus 0.008 au, eccentricity eb about 0, inclination ib= 89.791 plus or minus 0.014 degrees, radius Rb= 1.046 plus or minus 0.014 R J, and 95 % confidence upper limit on its mass M 95%,b = 1.6 M J. For planet c, a c = 0.99+0.03-0.04 au, ec about 0, i c = 89.701 plus or minus 0.011 degrees, R c = 1.36 plus or minus 0.03 R J, and M 95%,c = 2.0 M J (0.24 M J if adding transit timing variation constrains). They seem to be moderate-to-low-mass giants in nearly resonant, coplanar, circular orbits that formed in situ, or beyond the snowline, and migrated inwards, shaping the disk.
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