HD 148797: A bright F-type star with two moderate-period low-density sub-Jovian planets. Compact multi-planet architectures are common in the Neptunian savanna
J. M. Almenara, A. Castro-González, R. Mardling, T. Guillot, X. Bonfils, L. Thomas, L. Gauvrit, L. Abe, A. Agabi, J. Aubert, F. Bouchy, C. Cadieux, A. Deline, R. F. Díaz, D. Ehrenreich, T. Forveille, A. Heitzmann, P. Hirling, R. M. Hoogenboom, A. Leleu, M. Lendl, D. Mékarnia, S. Pelletier, A. Psaridi, E. Rea, X. Song, O. Suárez, A. H. M. J. Triaud, S. Udry
astro-ph.EP
Submitted: 2026-07-10
Comments: 17 pages, 16 figures, submitted
Code: https://github.com/castro-gzlz/TESS-cont
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We report the confirmation and characterisation of two moderate-period sub-Jovian planets transiting the bright F-type star HD 148797 (G=9.4 mag, Teff=6441 +/- 51 K).
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Abstract
We report the confirmation and characterisation of two moderate-period sub-Jovian planets transiting the bright F-type star HD 148797 (G=9.4 mag, Teff=6441 +/- 51 K). Using photometric time series from TESS and CHEOPS, we determine orbital periods of 42.1 d for HD 148797 b and 68.2 d for HD 148797 c, putting the period ratio very close to the golden mean at 1.619 and therefore near several strong harmonics, and measure planetary radii of 8.25 +/- 0.37 RE and 8.37 +/- 0.38 RE, respectively. We detect significant anti-correlated transit-timing variations for both planets, which contain enough harmonic information to yield photodynamical masses of 39.3 +13-8.5 ME for HD 148797 b and 39.6 +/- 9.3 ME for HD 148797 c. The corresponding bulk densities, 0.39 +/- 0.12 and 0.377 +/- 0.084 g/cm3, place both planets among the low-density sub-Jovians of the Neptunian savanna. The architecture of HD 148797 is not unusual within this regime: we find that detected multi-system fractions in the savanna remain at 70-90%, and that most savanna multi-planet systems contain at least one adjacent planet pair with Pout/Pin < 3. This pattern suggests that savanna sub-Jovians are commonly found in dynamically cold systems, consistent with smoother migration pathways such as disk-driven migration rather than disruptive high-eccentricity tidal migration. As a bright, co-evolved system hosting two warm savanna sub-Jovians with similar radii and masses, HD 148797 is also a promising target for comparative atmospheric characterisation.
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