TOI-1842b: A Transiting Warm Saturn Undergoing Reinflation around an Evolving Subgiant

Robert A. Wittenmyer; Jake T. Clark; Trifon Trifonov; Brett C. Addison; Duncan J. Wright; Keivan G. Stassun; Jonathan Horner; Nataliea Lowson; John Kielkopf; Stephen R. Kane; Peter Plavchan; Avi Shporer; Hui Zhang; Brendan P. Bowler; Matthew W. Mengel; Jack Okumura; Markus Rabus; Marshall C. Johnson; Daniel Harbeck; René Tronsgaard; Lars A. Buchhave; Karen A. Collins; Kevin I. Collins; Tianjun Gan; Eric L. N. Jensen; Steve B. Howell; E. Furlan; Crystal L. Gnilka; Kathryn V. Lester; Rachel A. Matson; Nicholas J. Scott; George R. Ricker; Roland Vanderspek; David W. Latham; S. Seager; Joshua N. Winn; Jon M. Jenkins; Alexander Rudat; Elisa V. Quintana; David R. Rodriguez; Douglas A. Caldwell; Samuel N. Quinn; Zahra Essack; Luke G. Bouma

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TOI-1842b: A Transiting Warm Saturn Undergoing Reinflation around an Evolving Subgiant

Robert A. Wittenmyer^*
, Jake T. Clark
, Trifon Trifonov
, Brett C. Addison
, Duncan J. Wright
, Keivan G. Stassun
, Jonathan Horner
, Nataliea Lowson
, John Kielkopf
, Stephen R. Kane
, Peter Plavchan
, Avi Shporer
, Hui Zhang
, Brendan P. Bowler
, Matthew W. Mengel
, Jack Okumura
, Markus Rabus
, Marshall C. Johnson
, Daniel Harbeck
, René Tronsgaard

Lars A. Buchhave, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Tianjun Gan, Eric L. N. Jensen, Steve B. Howell, E. Furlan, Crystal L. Gnilka, Kathryn V. Lester, Rachel A. Matson, Nicholas J. Scott, George R. Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, David W. Latham, S. Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, Alexander Rudat, Elisa V. Quintana, David R. Rodriguez, Douglas A. Caldwell, Samuel N. Quinn, Zahra Essack, Luke G. Bouma

^*Corresponding author for this work

Swarthmore College
University of Southern Queensland
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
University of Louisville
University of California at Riverside
George Mason University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nanjing University
University of Texas at Austin
University of California at Santa Barbara
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tsinghua University
NASA Ames Research Center
California Institute of Technology
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Princeton University
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Telescope Science Institute

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The imminent launch of space telescopes designed to probe the atmospheres of exoplanets has prompted new efforts to prioritize the thousands of transiting planet candidates for follow-up characterization. We report the detection and confirmation of TOI-1842b, a warm Saturn identified by TESS and confirmed with ground-based observations from Minerva-Australis, NRES, and the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope. This planet has a radius of R_J, a mass of M_J, an orbital period of days, and an extremely low density (ρ = 0.252 ± 0.091 g cm⁻³). TOI-1842b has among the best known combinations of large atmospheric scale height (893 km) and host-star brightness (J = 8.747 mag), making it an attractive target for atmospheric characterization. As the host star is beginning to evolve off the main sequence, TOI-1842b presents an excellent opportunity to test models of gas giant reinflation. The primary transit duration of only 4.3 hr also makes TOI-1842b an easily-schedulable target for further ground-based atmospheric characterization.

Original language	English
Article number	82
Journal	Astronomical Journal
Volume	163
Issue number	2
Number of pages	15
ISSN	0004-6256
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3f39
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Wittenmyer, R. A., Clark, J. T., Trifonov, T., Addison, B. C., Wright, D. J., Stassun, K. G., Horner, J., Lowson, N., Kielkopf, J., Kane, S. R., Plavchan, P., Shporer, A., Zhang, H., Bowler, B. P., Mengel, M. W., Okumura, J., Rabus, M., Johnson, M. C., Harbeck, D., ... Bouma, L. G. (2022). TOI-1842b: A Transiting Warm Saturn Undergoing Reinflation around an Evolving Subgiant. Astronomical Journal, 163(2), Article 82. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3f39

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TOI-1842b: A Transiting Warm Saturn Undergoing Reinflation around an Evolving Subgiant

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