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  • J Serrano Bell; Díaz, R F; Hébrard, G; Martioli, E; Heidari, N; Sousa, S; Boisse, I; Almenara, J M; Alonso-Santiago, J; Barros, S C C; Benni, P; Bieryla, A; Bonfils, X; Caldwell, D A; Ciardi, D R; Collins, K A; Cortés-Zuleta, P; Dalal, S; de León, J P; Deleuil, M; Delfosse, X; Demangeon, O D S; Esparza-Borges, E; veille, T; Frasca, A; Fukui, A; Gregorio, J; Guerrero, N M; Howell, S B; Hoyer, S; Ikuta, K; Jenkins, J M; Kiefer, F; Latham, D W; Marino, G; Michaels, E J; Moutou, C; Murgas, F; Narita, N; Palle, E; Parviainen, H; Santos, N C; Stassun, K G; Winn, J N

    arXiv.org, 03/2024
    Paper, Journal Article

    We report the characterization of two planet candidates detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), TOI-1199 b and TOI-1273 b, with periods of 3.7 and 4.6 days, respectively. Follow-up observations for both targets, which include several ground-based light curves, confirmed the transit events. High-precision radial velocities from the SOPHIE spectrograph revealed signals at the expected frequencies and phases of the transiting candidates and allowed mass determinations with a precision of \(8.4\%\) and \(6.7\%\) for TOI-1199 b and TOI-1273 b, respectively. The planetary and orbital parameters were derived from a joint analysis of the radial velocities and photometric data. We find that the planets have masses of \(0.239\,\pm\,0.020\,M_{\mathrm{J}}\) and \(0.222\,\pm\,0.015\,M_{\mathrm{J}}\) and radii of \(0.938\,\pm\,0.025\,R_{\mathrm{J}}\) and \(0.99\,\pm\,0.22\,R_{\mathrm{J}}\), respectively. The grazing transit of TOI-1273 b translates to a larger uncertainty in its radius, and hence also in its bulk density, compared to TOI-1199 b. The inferred bulk densities of \(0.358\,\pm\,0.041\,\mathrm{g}\,\mathrm{cm}^{-3}\) and \(0.28\,\pm\,0.11\,\mathrm{g}\,\mathrm{cm}^{-3}\) are among the lowest known for exoplanets in this mass range, which, considering the brightness of the host stars (\(V \approx 11\,\mathrm{mag}\)), render them particularly amenable to atmospheric characterization via the transit spectroscopy technique. The better constraints on the parameters of TOI-1199 b provide a transmission spectroscopy metric of \(134\,\pm\,17\), making it the better suited of the two planets for atmospheric studies.