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'''TOI 561''' is an old, metal-poor Sun-like star, known to have multiple small planets.<ref name= Weiss2020/><ref name=Lacedelli/><ref name=EPE/><ref name=sci-news2021-01-13/><ref name= Weiss/> | |||
It is an [[orange dwarf]], estimated to be 10.5 billion years old, and about 79% the mass and 85% the radius of [[Sun|Sol]], Earth's sun.<ref name=sciencealert2021-01-14/><ref name=sci-news2021-01-13/> | |||
'''TOI 561''' is an old star, known to have multiple | |||
It is an [[orange dwarf]], estimated to be 10.5 billion years old, about | In January 2021 a team led by Lauren Weiss of the [[University of Hawaii at Manoa]] announced that, using data from NASA's [[Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite]], they had found a [[Super-Earth]] in a very close orbit, as well as two outer Sub-Neptunes.<ref name=UcRiverside2021-01-11/><ref name=asiatatler2021-01-18/><ref name=sciencealert2021-01-14/><ref name=Weiss2020/> The innermost planet, TOI-561b, orbits in under one Earth day.<ref name=Lacedelli/><ref name=Weiss2020/> Another team led by Gaia Lacedelli of the [[University of Padua]] independently announced the discovery in a paper published in December 2020.<ref name=Lacedelli/> However, the two papers disagree on the structure of the system. While the innermost two planets were confirmed from TESS data by both papers, Weiss proposes only a single third planet in a 16.3-day orbit, while Lacedelli argues that the system instead contains two further planets, in wider orbits of 25.6 and 77 days.<ref name=Lacedelli/> | ||
==Discovery and Nomenclature== | |||
TOI-561 is also designated 2MASS J09524454+0612589 in the 2MASS catalog and TIC 377064495 in the TESS Input Catalog. When its planets were first identified, it was renamed TOI-561, with TOI standing for "TESS Object of Interest".<ref name=ExoFOP/> | |||
The planetary system was independently confirmed and characterized by Lacedelli et al 2020 and Weiss et al 2021. Lacedelli et al found evidence for four exoplanets: the Ultra-Short-Period (USP) Super-Earth TOI-561b, and three Sub-Neptunes designated TOI-561c, d, and e. The two planets TOI-561d and e were originally listed as a single planet with a period of 16 days on ExoFOP, but Lacedelli could not detect a planet in that orbit using radial velocity data from HARPS, and instead interpreted it as two separate transits coming from planets correlating with periods of 25.6 and 77.2 days found by HARPS.<ref name=Lacedelli/> | |||
In January 2021, Lauren Weiss and her team's study on TOI-561 was published. Unlike Lacedelli, they kept the 16-day signal and designated it TOI-561d;<ref name=Weiss2020/> it is referred to as TOI-561f on NASA's Exoplanet Archive to avoid confusion with the TOI-561d from Lacedelli's paper.<ref name=ExoFOP/> | |||
==Characteristics== | |||
TOI-561 is a yellow or orange star approximately 80% the size of the Sun. According to Lacedelli, it is 85% the radius and 79% the mass of the Sun, with a temperature of 5455 K.<ref name=Lacedelli/> Weiss found the star to be 83.2% the radius and 80.5% the mass of the Sun, with a temperature of 5326 K and a luminosity just over half that of the Sun.<ref name=Weiss2020/> Both teams found that TOI-561 has an extremely low abundance of metals, or any element heavier than hydrogen or helium, and is very old; Weiss calculates an age of roughly 10 billion years. It is also a part of the Galactic Thick-Disk and is the first of those stars to have confirmed transiting exoplanets.<ref name=Weiss2020/> | |||
==Planetary System== | |||
Depending on the study, TOI-561 has either 3 (Weiss) or 4 (Lacedelli) planets. The discrepancy comes from different interpretations of the two transit events associated with TOI-561d in Weiss 2020. Only two transits were observed by TESS, and a third transit for a 16-day period would have occurred in the middle of a data gap.<ref name=Weiss2020/> Weiss attributes the two transits to that of a single Sub-Neptune sized planet. However, in the radial velocity analysis by Lacedelli 2020, the 16-day signal is not recovered, but there are two additional signals of 26 and 77 days that they attribute to one of the two transits each.<ref name=Lacedelli/> The follow-up study in 2022 has confirmed the architecture of 4-planet system. Additional, 5th planet on the 473{{±|36|25}} days orbit is suspected.<ref name=Lacedelli2022>{{citation|arxiv=2201.07727|year=2022|title=Investigating the architecture and internal structure of the TOI-561 system planets with CHEOPS, HARPS-N and TESS}}</ref> | |||
===TOI-561b=== | |||
TOI-561b is an USP Super-Earth with a radius of roughly 1.4 Earths. It has an extremely short orbital period of under 11 hours, less than half of an Earth day, resulting in an equilibrium temperature of 2,480 ± 200 degrees Kelvin.<ref name=Weiss2020/> The planet is believed to be far too small and irradiated to hold onto its primordial [[Hydrogen]] and [[Helium]] envelope. However, the composition of the planet varies greatly between the two studies. Weiss 2020 found a mass of around 3.2 Earths and a density of 5.5 grams per cubic centimeter, around the same as Earth and implying a rocky but iron-poor composition.<ref name=Weiss2020/> Lacedelli 2020, on the other hand, found a mass of only 1.59 Earths and a density of 3.0 grams per cubic centimeter, abnormally low for a planet of its size and suggesting a composition made of 50% or more of water. Even their higher mass estimate of 1.83 Earths is still consistent with a water-world. With an insolation 5,100 times greater than Earth, TOI-561b should have lost its gaseous layer and have little volatiles, so the authors believe if the planet has a significant amount of water, it has been evaporated into a puffy steam atmosphere that makes the planet seem larger, less dense, and more water-rich. If it is an extremely water-rich world, TOI-561b would prove formation scenarios about Super-Earths forming beyond the "Snow Line" and migrating inwards.<ref name=Lacedelli/> | |||
===TOI-561c=== | |||
TOI-561c is a [[Mini-Neptune]] or [[Gas Dwarf]] orbiting every 10.7 days with an equilibrium temperature of 860 ± 70 degrees Kelvin.<ref name=Weiss2020/> With a radius of 2.9 Earths and a mass of 5.4 to 7.0 Earths, the planet has a [[Neptune]]-like density of 1.3 to 1.6 grams per cubic centimeter, implying that it is a small gas planet with a similar composition, albeit far hotter and closer to its star than our system's ice giants. | |||
===TOI-561d/e/f=== | |||
Two additional transit events were observed by TESS. The original planet candidate from the SPOC pipeline included both transits with a period of 16 days.<ref name=ExoFOP/><ref name=Weiss2020/><ref name=Lacedelli/> Lacedelli et al failed to find a significant radial velocity signal at that period, but found two others with periods of 25.6 and 77.2 days, and also noticed differences in the shape, duration, and depth of the two individual transits. They concluded that the 16-day signal was instead two separate single transit events from similarly sized but different planets, which corresponded with the additional signals found in their radial velocity analysis. They designated these planets TOI-561d (25.6 days) and TOI-561e (77.2 days). According to their analysis, both planets are slightly smaller than TOI-561c at 2.5 and 2.7 Earths, but are both significantly more massive, at 12 and 16 times the mass of Earth. TOI-561d and e are much denser at 4.1 and 4.6 grams per cubic centimeter, respectively. These are compatible with water-world compositions of >50% water by mass, or a thin H/He envelope on top of a water mantle and rocky core.<ref name=Lacedelli/> Weiss et al interprets the two transits as a single planet, and also interprets an extremely faint radial velocity signal corresponding to about 3 Earth masses;<ref name=Weiss2020/> however, it is too imprecise to gain an accurate density estimate, and this scenario could be incorrect. To distinguish this from the previous reported TOI-561e, the 16-day planet from Weiss et al has been designated TOI-561f on the Exoplanet Archive.<ref name=ExoFOP/> | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:00, 24 October 2024
TOI 561 is an old, metal-poor Sun-like star, known to have multiple small planets.[1][2][3][4][5]
It is an orange dwarf, estimated to be 10.5 billion years old, and about 79% the mass and 85% the radius of Sol, Earth's sun.[6][4]
In January 2021 a team led by Lauren Weiss of the University of Hawaii at Manoa announced that, using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, they had found a Super-Earth in a very close orbit, as well as two outer Sub-Neptunes.[7][8][6][1] The innermost planet, TOI-561b, orbits in under one Earth day.[2][1] Another team led by Gaia Lacedelli of the University of Padua independently announced the discovery in a paper published in December 2020.[2] However, the two papers disagree on the structure of the system. While the innermost two planets were confirmed from TESS data by both papers, Weiss proposes only a single third planet in a 16.3-day orbit, while Lacedelli argues that the system instead contains two further planets, in wider orbits of 25.6 and 77 days.[2]
Discovery and Nomenclature
TOI-561 is also designated 2MASS J09524454+0612589 in the 2MASS catalog and TIC 377064495 in the TESS Input Catalog. When its planets were first identified, it was renamed TOI-561, with TOI standing for "TESS Object of Interest".[9]
The planetary system was independently confirmed and characterized by Lacedelli et al 2020 and Weiss et al 2021. Lacedelli et al found evidence for four exoplanets: the Ultra-Short-Period (USP) Super-Earth TOI-561b, and three Sub-Neptunes designated TOI-561c, d, and e. The two planets TOI-561d and e were originally listed as a single planet with a period of 16 days on ExoFOP, but Lacedelli could not detect a planet in that orbit using radial velocity data from HARPS, and instead interpreted it as two separate transits coming from planets correlating with periods of 25.6 and 77.2 days found by HARPS.[2]
In January 2021, Lauren Weiss and her team's study on TOI-561 was published. Unlike Lacedelli, they kept the 16-day signal and designated it TOI-561d;[1] it is referred to as TOI-561f on NASA's Exoplanet Archive to avoid confusion with the TOI-561d from Lacedelli's paper.[9]
Characteristics
TOI-561 is a yellow or orange star approximately 80% the size of the Sun. According to Lacedelli, it is 85% the radius and 79% the mass of the Sun, with a temperature of 5455 K.[2] Weiss found the star to be 83.2% the radius and 80.5% the mass of the Sun, with a temperature of 5326 K and a luminosity just over half that of the Sun.[1] Both teams found that TOI-561 has an extremely low abundance of metals, or any element heavier than hydrogen or helium, and is very old; Weiss calculates an age of roughly 10 billion years. It is also a part of the Galactic Thick-Disk and is the first of those stars to have confirmed transiting exoplanets.[1]
Planetary System
Depending on the study, TOI-561 has either 3 (Weiss) or 4 (Lacedelli) planets. The discrepancy comes from different interpretations of the two transit events associated with TOI-561d in Weiss 2020. Only two transits were observed by TESS, and a third transit for a 16-day period would have occurred in the middle of a data gap.[1] Weiss attributes the two transits to that of a single Sub-Neptune sized planet. However, in the radial velocity analysis by Lacedelli 2020, the 16-day signal is not recovered, but there are two additional signals of 26 and 77 days that they attribute to one of the two transits each.[2] The follow-up study in 2022 has confirmed the architecture of 4-planet system. Additional, 5th planet on the 473Template:± days orbit is suspected.[10]
TOI-561b
TOI-561b is an USP Super-Earth with a radius of roughly 1.4 Earths. It has an extremely short orbital period of under 11 hours, less than half of an Earth day, resulting in an equilibrium temperature of 2,480 ± 200 degrees Kelvin.[1] The planet is believed to be far too small and irradiated to hold onto its primordial Hydrogen and Helium envelope. However, the composition of the planet varies greatly between the two studies. Weiss 2020 found a mass of around 3.2 Earths and a density of 5.5 grams per cubic centimeter, around the same as Earth and implying a rocky but iron-poor composition.[1] Lacedelli 2020, on the other hand, found a mass of only 1.59 Earths and a density of 3.0 grams per cubic centimeter, abnormally low for a planet of its size and suggesting a composition made of 50% or more of water. Even their higher mass estimate of 1.83 Earths is still consistent with a water-world. With an insolation 5,100 times greater than Earth, TOI-561b should have lost its gaseous layer and have little volatiles, so the authors believe if the planet has a significant amount of water, it has been evaporated into a puffy steam atmosphere that makes the planet seem larger, less dense, and more water-rich. If it is an extremely water-rich world, TOI-561b would prove formation scenarios about Super-Earths forming beyond the "Snow Line" and migrating inwards.[2]
TOI-561c
TOI-561c is a Mini-Neptune or Gas Dwarf orbiting every 10.7 days with an equilibrium temperature of 860 ± 70 degrees Kelvin.[1] With a radius of 2.9 Earths and a mass of 5.4 to 7.0 Earths, the planet has a Neptune-like density of 1.3 to 1.6 grams per cubic centimeter, implying that it is a small gas planet with a similar composition, albeit far hotter and closer to its star than our system's ice giants.
TOI-561d/e/f
Two additional transit events were observed by TESS. The original planet candidate from the SPOC pipeline included both transits with a period of 16 days.[9][1][2] Lacedelli et al failed to find a significant radial velocity signal at that period, but found two others with periods of 25.6 and 77.2 days, and also noticed differences in the shape, duration, and depth of the two individual transits. They concluded that the 16-day signal was instead two separate single transit events from similarly sized but different planets, which corresponded with the additional signals found in their radial velocity analysis. They designated these planets TOI-561d (25.6 days) and TOI-561e (77.2 days). According to their analysis, both planets are slightly smaller than TOI-561c at 2.5 and 2.7 Earths, but are both significantly more massive, at 12 and 16 times the mass of Earth. TOI-561d and e are much denser at 4.1 and 4.6 grams per cubic centimeter, respectively. These are compatible with water-world compositions of >50% water by mass, or a thin H/He envelope on top of a water mantle and rocky core.[2] Weiss et al interprets the two transits as a single planet, and also interprets an extremely faint radial velocity signal corresponding to about 3 Earth masses;[1] however, it is too imprecise to gain an accurate density estimate, and this scenario could be incorrect. To distinguish this from the previous reported TOI-561e, the 16-day planet from Weiss et al has been designated TOI-561f on the Exoplanet Archive.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Lauren M. Weiss (2020), The TESS-Keck Survey II: Masses of Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 An unusually low density ultra-short period super-Earth and three mini-Neptunes around the old star TOI-561. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- ↑ Jean Schneider. Planet TOI-561 b. Retrieved on 2021-02-01.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Natali Anderson. Astronomers Discover 10-Billion-Year-Old Multiplanet System, Sci-news, 2021-01-13. Retrieved on 2021-02-01. “TOI-561 hosts at least three small transiting planets, named TOI-561b, c, and d, and is one of the oldest, most metal-poor planetary systems discovered yet in the Milky Way.”
- ↑ Lauren M. Weiss. The TESS-Keck Survey II: An Ultra-Short Period Rocky Planet and its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561. Retrieved on 2021-02-01.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michelle Starr. Astronomers Find an Astonishing 'Super-Earth' That's Nearly as Old as The Universe, Science Alert, 2021-01-14. Retrieved on 2021-02-01. “Around one of the galaxy's oldest stars, an orange dwarf named TOI-561 just 280 light-years away, astronomers have found three orbiting exoplanets - one of which is a rocky world 1.5 times the size of Earth, whipping around the star on a breakneck 10.5-hour orbit.”
- ↑ Jules Bernstein. ‘Super Earth’ discovered near one of our galaxy’s oldest stars: Hot planet orbits its star twice during every Earth day, University of California Riverside, 2021-01-11. Retrieved on 2021-02-01. “A hot, rocky “super Earth,” near one of the oldest stars in the galaxy has taken a team of planet-hunting scientists by surprise.”
- ↑ Doris Lam. All About The Discovery Of TOI-561b, The 14-Billion-Year-Old ‘Super-Earth’ Scientists Recently Found, Tatler magazine, 2021-01-18. Retrieved on 2021-02-01.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 ExoFOP TIC 377064495.
- ↑ Investigating the architecture and internal structure of the TOI-561 system planets with CHEOPS, HARPS-N and TESS, 2022