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  • K2-99 revisited: a non-infl...
    Smith, A M S; Breton, S N; Csizmadia, Sz; Dai, F; Gandolfi, D; García, R A; Howard, A W; Isaacson, H; Korth, J; Lam, K W F; Mathur, S; Nowak, G; Pérez Hernández, F; Persson, C M; Albrecht, S H; Barragán, O; Cabrera, J; Cochran, W D; Deeg, H J; Fridlund, M; Georgieva, I Y; Goffo, E; Guenther, E W; Hatzes, A P; Kabath, P; Livingston, J H; Luque, R; Palle, E; Redfield, S; Rodler, F; Serrano, L M; Van Eylen, V

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 01/2022, Volume: 510, Issue: 4
    Journal Article

    ABSTRACT We report new photometric and spectroscopic observations of the K2-99 planetary system. Asteroseismic analysis of the short-cadence light curve from K2’s Campaign 17 allows us to refine the stellar properties. We find K2-99 to be significantly smaller than previously thought, with R⋆ = 2.55 ± 0.02 R⊙. The new light curve also contains four transits of K2-99 b, which we use to improve our knowledge of the planetary properties. We find the planet to be a non-inflated warm Jupiter, with Rb = 1.06 ± 0.01 $\mathrm{R_{\rm Jup}}$. 60 new radial velocity measurements from HARPS, HARPS-N, and HIRES enable the determination of the orbital parameters of K2-99 c, which were previously poorly constrained. We find that this outer planet has a minimum mass Mcsin ic = 8.4 ± 0.2 $\mathrm{M_{\rm Jup}}$, and an eccentric orbit (ec = 0.210 ± 0.009) with a period of 522.2 ± 1.4 d. Upcoming TESS observations in 2022 have a good chance of detecting the transit of this planet, if the mutual inclination between the two planetary orbits is small.