Search for Planets in Hot Jupiter Systems with Multi-Sector TESS Photometry. II. Constraints on Planetary Companions in 12 Systems

Abstract

Uninterrupted observations from space-borne telescopes provide the photometric precision that is required to detect shallow transits of small planets missed by ground-based surveys. We used data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to search for nearby planetary companions in 12 planetary systems with hot Jupiters: HD 2685, Qatar-10, WASP-4, WASP-48, WASP-58, WASP-91, WASP-120, WASP-121, WASP-122, WASP-140, XO-6, and XO-7. We also applied the transit timing method based on homogeneously determined mid-transit times in order to search for non-transiting companions that could gravitationally perturb the already known planets. We found no additional planets in those systems down to the regime of sub-Neptunian globes. This negative result is in line with statistical studies, supporting the high-eccentricity migration as a pathway of the investigated giant planets to the tight orbits observed today. %d 10.32023/0001-5237/72.1.1