TOI-150: A Transiting Hot Jupiter in the TESS Southern CVZ
Butler, R. Paul; Schneider, Donald P.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Majewski, Steven R.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Aerts, Conny; Beaton, Rachael L.; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Wang, Songhu; García-Hernández, D. A.; Monson, Andrew J.; Fleming, Scott W.; Díaz, Matías R.; Wang, Sharon X.; Cañas, Caleb I.; Bender, Chad F.; Tkachenko, Andrew; Teske, Johanna K.; De Lee, Nathan; Covey, Kevin R.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Nitschelm, Christian; Stefansson, Gudmundur; Wilson, Robert F.; Hearty, Fred R.; Wilson, John C.
United States, Belgium, Chile, Spain
Abstract
We report the detection of a hot Jupiter ({M}p={1.75}-0.17+0.14 {M}{{J}}, R p = 1.38 ± 0.04 R J) orbiting a middle-aged star ({log}g={4.152}-0.043+0.030) in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) southern continuous viewing zone (β = -79.°59). We confirm the planetary nature of the candidate TOI-150.01 using radial velocity observations from the APOGEE-2 South spectrograph and the Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph, ground-based photometric observations from the robotic Three-hundred MilliMeter Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, and Gaia distance estimates. Large-scale spectroscopic surveys, such as APOGEE/APOGEE-2, now have sufficient radial velocity precision to directly confirm the signature of giant exoplanets, making such data sets valuable tools in the TESS era. Continual monitoring of TOI-150 by TESS can reveal additional planets and subsequent observations can provide insights into planetary system architectures involving a hot Jupiter around a star about halfway through its main-sequence life.
This Letter includes data gathered with the 6.5 m Magellan Telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.