Bibcode
Barragán, O.; Grziwa, Sascha; Gandolfi, Davide; Fridlund, Malcolm; Endl, Michael; Deeg, H. J.; Cagigal, Manuel P.; Lanza, Antonino F.; Prada Moroni, Pier G.; Smith, Alexis M. S.; Korth, Judith; Bedell, Megan; Cabrera, Juan; Cochran, William D.; Cusano, Felice; Csizmadia, Szilard; Eigmüller, Philipp; Erikson, Anders; Guenther, Eike W.; Hatzes, Artie P.; Nespral, D.; Pätzold, Martin; Prieto-Arranz, J.; Rauer, Heike
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 152, Issue 6, article id. 193, 9 pp. (2016).
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2016
Citations
26
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Description
We report the discovery of K2-98b (EPIC 211391664b), a transiting
Neptune-size planet monitored by the K2 mission during its Campaign 5.
We combine the K2 time-series data with ground-based photometric and
spectroscopic follow-up observations to confirm the planetary nature of
the object and derive its mass, radius, and orbital parameters. K2-98b
is a warm Neptune-like planet in a 10 day orbit around a V = 12.2 mag
F-type star with M ⋆ = 1.074 ± 0.042 M
⊙, R ⋆ =
{1.311}-0.048+0.083 R ⊙, and age of
{5.2}-1.0+1.2 {Gyr}. We derive a planetary mass
and radius of M p = 32.2 ± 8.1 M ⊕
and R p = {4.3}-0.2+0.3 R
⊕. K2-98b joins the relatively small group of
Neptune-size planets whose mass and radius have been derived with a
precision better than 25%. We estimate that the planet will be engulfed
by its host star in ∼3 Gyr, due to the evolution of the latter
toward the red giant branch.