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2025AJ....169..109T - Astron. J., 169, 109 (2025/February-0)

Revised Masses for Low-density Planets Orbiting the Disordered M-dwarf System TOI-1266.

TYLER D., PETIGURA E.A., ROGERS J., LUBIN J., SEIFHART A., BEAN J.L., BRADY M. and LUQUE R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present an analysis of 126 new radial velocity measurements from the MAROON-X spectrograph to investigate the TOI-1266 system, which hosts two known transiting sub-Neptunes at 10.8 and 18.8 days. We integrated our measurements with existing HARPS-N measurements for this system and derived revised masses for TOI-1266 b and c of Mb = 4.09 ± 0.45M⊕ and Mc = 2.64 ± 0.52M⊕, respectively. The Keplerian fit from the combined datasets enabled an ≈35% and ≈41% improvement in mass precision for planet b and c, respectively, compared to the previously published values. With bulk densities of ρb = 1.25 ± 0.21 g cm–3 and ρc = 1.51 ± 0.39 g cm–3, the planets are among the lowest density sub-Neptunes orbiting an M dwarf. They are both consistent with rocky cores surrounded by hydrogen helium envelopes. TOI-1266 c may also be consistent with a water-rich composition, but we disfavor that interpretation from an Occam's razor perspective.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Exoplanet evolution - Exoplanet astronomy - Exoplanet detection methods - Radial velocity - Exoplanet systems - Exoplanet atmospheric composition

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/AJ/169/109): fig2.dat>

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