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  • Fukui, A; Korth, J; Livingston, J H; Twicken, J D; Zapatero Osorio, M R; Jenkins, J M; Mori, M; Murgas, F; Ogihara, M; Narita, N; Pallé, E; Stassun, K G; Nowak, G; Ciardi, D R; Alvarez-Hernandez, L; Béjar, V J S; Casasayas-Barris, N; Crouzet, N; de Leon, J P; Esparza-Borges, E; D Hidalgo Soto; Isogai, K; Kawauchi, K; Klagyivik, P; Kodama, T; Kurita, S; Kusakabe, N; Luque, R; Madrigal-Aguado, A; P Montanes Rodriguez; Morello, G; Nishiumi, T; Orell-Miquel, J; Oshagh, M; Parviainen, H; Sánchez-Benavente, M; Stangret, M; Watanabe, N; Chen, G; Tamura, M; Bosch-Cabot, P; Bowen, M; Eastridge, K; Freour, L; Gonzales, E; Guerra, P; Jundiyeh, Y; Kim, T K; Kroer, L V; Levine, A M; Morgan, E H; Reefe, M; Tronsgaard, R; Wedderkopp, C K; Wittrock, J; Collins, K A; Hesse, K; Latham, D W; Ricker, G R; Seager, S; Vanderspek, R; Winn, J; Bachelet, E; Bowman, M; McCully, C; Daily, M; Harbeck, D; Volgenau, N H

    arXiv.org, 09/2021
    Paper, Journal Article

    We report the discovery of one super-Earth- (TOI-1749b) and two sub-Neptune-sized planets (TOI-1749c and TOI-1749d) transiting an early M dwarf at a distance of 100~pc, which were first identified as planetary candidates using data from the TESS photometric survey. We have followed up this system from the ground by means of multiband transit photometry, adaptive-optics imaging, and low-resolution spectroscopy, from which we have validated the planetary nature of the candidates. We find that TOI-1749b, c, and d have orbital periods of 2.39, 4.49, and 9.05 days, and radii of 1.4, 2.1, and 2.5 \(R_\oplus\), respectively. We also place 95\% confidence upper limits on the masses of 57, 14, and 15 \(M_\oplus\) for TOI-1749b, c, and d, respectively, from transit timing variations. The periods, sizes, and tentative masses of these planets are in line with a scenario in which all three planets initially had a hydrogen envelope on top of a rocky core, and only the envelope of the innermost planet has been stripped away by photoevaporation and/or core-powered mass loss mechanisms. These planets are similar to other planetary trios found around M dwarfs, such as TOI-175b,c,d and TOI-270b,c,d, in the sense that the outer pair has a period ratio within 1\% of 2. Such a characteristic orbital configuration, in which an additional planet is located interior to a near 2:1 period-ratio pair, is relatively rare around FGK dwarfs.