NGTS-11 b (TOI-1847 b): A Transiting Warm Saturn Recovered from a TESS Single-transit Event
Henning, Thomas; Jordán, Andrés; Espinoza, Néstor; Brahm, Rafael; Wheatley, Peter J.; Bayliss, Daniel; Hobson, Melissa J.; Moyano, Maximiliano; Günther, Maximilian N.; Eigmüller, Philipp; Rauer, Heike; Casewell, Sarah L.; Gill, Samuel; Goad, Michael R.; Anderson, David R.; Armstrong, David J.; Burleigh, Matthew R.; Gillen, Edward; Jenkins, James S.; Lendl, Monika; McCormac, James; Udry, Stéphane; Vines, Jose I.; West, Richard G.; Smith, Alexis M. S.; Bryant, Edward M.; Queloz, Didier; Watson, Christopher A.; Bouchy, François; Nielsen, Louise D.; Osborn, Hugh P.; Raynard, Liam; Sarkis, Paula; Grieves, Nolan; Pollacco, Don; Acton, Jack S.; Tilbrook, Rosanna H.; Rojas, Felipe; Cooke, Benjamin F.; Tala Pinto, Marcelo; Hogan, Aleisha
United Kingdom, Chile, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, United States, Spain
Abstract
We report the discovery of NGTS-11 b (=TOI-1847b), a transiting Saturn in a 35.46 day orbit around a mid K-type star ( ${T}_{\mathrm{eff}}$ = 5050 ± 80 K). We initially identified the system from a single-transit event in a TESS full-frame image light curve. Following 79 nights of photometric monitoring with an NGTS telescope, we observed a second full transit of NGTS-11 b approximately one year after the TESS single-transit event. The NGTS transit confirmed the parameters of the transit signal and restricted the orbital period to a set of 13 discrete periods. We combined our transit detections with precise radial-velocity measurements to determine the true orbital period and measure the mass of the planet. We find NGTS-11 b has a radius of $0.817{\pm }_{0.032}^{0.028}$ ${R}_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ , a mass of $0.344{\pm }_{0.073}^{0.092}$ ${M}_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ , and an equilibrium temperature of just $435{\pm }_{32}^{34}$ K, making it one of the coolest known transiting gas giants. NGTS-11 b is the first exoplanet to be discovered after being initially identified as a TESS single-transit event, and its discovery highlights the power of intense photometric monitoring in recovering longer-period transiting exoplanets from single-transit events.