A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii

Peter Plavchan; Thomas Barclay; Jonathan Gagné; Peter Gao; Bryson Cale; William Matzko; Diana Dragomir; Sam Quinn; Dax Feliz; Keivan Stassun; Ian J.M. Crossfield; David A. Berardo; David W. Latham; Ben Tieu; Guillem Anglada-Escudé; George Ricker; Roland Vanderspek; Sara Seager; Joshua N. Winn; Jon M. Jenkins; Stephen Rinehart; Akshata Krishnamurthy; Scott Dynes; John Doty; Fred Adams; Dennis A. Afanasev; Chas Beichman; Mike Bottom; Brendan P. Bowler; Carolyn Brinkworth; Carolyn J. Brown; Andrew Cancino; David R. Ciardi; Mark Clampin; Jake T. Clark; Karen Collins; Cassy Davison; Daniel Foreman-Mackey; Elise Furlan; Eric J. Gaidos; Claire Geneser; Frank Giddens; Emily Gilbert; Ryan Hall; Coel Hellier; Todd Henry; Jonathan Horner; Andrew W. Howard; Chelsea Huang; Joseph Huber; Stephen R. Kane; Matthew Kenworthy; John Kielkopf; David Kipping; Chris Klenke; Ethan Kruse; Natasha Latouf; Patrick Lowrance; Bertrand Mennesson; Matthew Mengel; Sean M. Mills; Tim Morton; Norio Narita; Elisabeth Newton; America Nishimoto; Jack Okumura; Enric Palle; Joshua Pepper; Elisa V. Quintana; Aki Roberge; Veronica Roccatagliata; Joshua E. Schlieder; Angelle Tanner; Johanna Teske; C. G. Tinney; Andrew Vanderburg; Kaspar von Braun; Bernie Walp; Jason Wang; Sharon Xuesong Wang; Denise Weigand; Russel White; Robert A. Wittenmyer; Duncan J. Wright; Allison Youngblood; Hui Zhang; Perri Zilberman

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A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii

Peter Plavchan, Thomas Barclay, Jonathan Gagné, Peter Gao, Bryson Cale, William Matzko, Diana Dragomir, Sam Quinn, Dax Feliz, Keivan Stassun, Ian J.M. Crossfield, David A. Berardo, David W. Latham, Ben Tieu, Guillem Anglada-Escudé, George Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, Sara Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. JenkinsStephen Rinehart, Akshata Krishnamurthy, Scott Dynes, John Doty, Fred Adams, Dennis A. Afanasev, Chas Beichman, Mike Bottom, Brendan P. Bowler, Carolyn Brinkworth, Carolyn J. Brown, Andrew Cancino, David R. Ciardi, Mark Clampin, Jake T. Clark, Karen Collins, Cassy Davison, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Elise Furlan, Eric J. Gaidos, Claire Geneser, Frank Giddens, Emily Gilbert, Ryan Hall, Coel Hellier, Todd Henry, Jonathan Horner, Andrew W. Howard, Chelsea Huang, Joseph Huber, Stephen R. Kane, Matthew Kenworthy, John Kielkopf, David Kipping, Chris Klenke, Ethan Kruse, Natasha Latouf, Patrick Lowrance, Bertrand Mennesson, Matthew Mengel, Sean M. Mills, Tim Morton, Norio Narita, Elisabeth Newton, America Nishimoto, Jack Okumura, Enric Palle, Joshua Pepper, Elisa V. Quintana, Aki Roberge, Veronica Roccatagliata, Joshua E. Schlieder, Angelle Tanner, Johanna Teske, C. G. Tinney, Andrew Vanderburg, Kaspar von Braun, Bernie Walp, Jason Wang, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Denise Weigand, Russel White, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Duncan J. Wright, Allison Youngblood, Hui Zhang, Perri Zilberman

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AU Microscopii (AU Mic) is the second closest pre-main-sequence star, at a distance of 9.79 parsecs and with an age of 22 million years¹. AU Mic possesses a relatively rare² and spatially resolved³ edge-on debris disk extending from about 35 to 210 astronomical units from the star⁴, and with clumps exhibiting non-Keplerian motion^5–7. Detection of newly formed planets around such a star is challenged by the presence of spots, plage, flares and other manifestations of magnetic ‘activity’ on the star^8,9. Here we report observations of a planet transiting AU Mic. The transiting planet, AU Mic b, has an orbital period of 8.46 days, an orbital distance of 0.07 astronomical units, a radius of 0.4 Jupiter radii, and a mass of less than 0.18 Jupiter masses at 3σ confidence. Our observations of a planet co-existing with a debris disk offer the opportunity to test the predictions of current models of planet formation and evolution.

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Journal	Nature
Volume	582
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DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2400-z
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Plavchan, P., Barclay, T., Gagné, J., Gao, P., Cale, B., Matzko, W., Dragomir, D., Quinn, S., Feliz, D., Stassun, K., Crossfield, I. J. M., Berardo, D. A., Latham, D. W., Tieu, B., Anglada-Escudé, G., Ricker, G., Vanderspek, R., Seager, S., Winn, J. N., ... Zilberman, P. (2020). A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii. Nature, 582(7813), 497-500. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2400-z

Plavchan, Peter ; Barclay, Thomas ; Gagné, Jonathan ; Gao, Peter ; Cale, Bryson ; Matzko, William ; Dragomir, Diana ; Quinn, Sam ; Feliz, Dax ; Stassun, Keivan ; Crossfield, Ian J.M. ; Berardo, David A. ; Latham, David W. ; Tieu, Ben ; Anglada-Escudé, Guillem ; Ricker, George ; Vanderspek, Roland ; Seager, Sara ; Winn, Joshua N. ; Jenkins, Jon M. ; Rinehart, Stephen ; Krishnamurthy, Akshata ; Dynes, Scott ; Doty, John ; Adams, Fred ; Afanasev, Dennis A. ; Beichman, Chas ; Bottom, Mike ; Bowler, Brendan P. ; Brinkworth, Carolyn ; Brown, Carolyn J. ; Cancino, Andrew ; Ciardi, David R. ; Clampin, Mark ; Clark, Jake T. ; Collins, Karen ; Davison, Cassy ; Foreman-Mackey, Daniel ; Furlan, Elise ; Gaidos, Eric J. ; Geneser, Claire ; Giddens, Frank ; Gilbert, Emily ; Hall, Ryan ; Hellier, Coel ; Henry, Todd ; Horner, Jonathan ; Howard, Andrew W. ; Huang, Chelsea ; Huber, Joseph ; Kane, Stephen R. ; Kenworthy, Matthew ; Kielkopf, John ; Kipping, David ; Klenke, Chris ; Kruse, Ethan ; Latouf, Natasha ; Lowrance, Patrick ; Mennesson, Bertrand ; Mengel, Matthew ; Mills, Sean M. ; Morton, Tim ; Narita, Norio ; Newton, Elisabeth ; Nishimoto, America ; Okumura, Jack ; Palle, Enric ; Pepper, Joshua ; Quintana, Elisa V. ; Roberge, Aki ; Roccatagliata, Veronica ; Schlieder, Joshua E. ; Tanner, Angelle ; Teske, Johanna ; Tinney, C. G. ; Vanderburg, Andrew ; von Braun, Kaspar ; Walp, Bernie ; Wang, Jason ; Wang, Sharon Xuesong ; Weigand, Denise ; White, Russel ; Wittenmyer, Robert A. ; Wright, Duncan J. ; Youngblood, Allison ; Zhang, Hui ; Zilberman, Perri. / A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii. In: Nature. 2020 ; Vol. 582, No. 7813. pp. 497-500.

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note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements This work was supported by grants to P.P. from NASA (award 16-APROBES16-0020 and support from the Exoplanet Exploration Program) and the National Science Foundation (Astronomy and Astrophysics grant 1716202), the Mount Cuba Astronomical Foundation and George Mason University start-up funds.The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility is operated by the University of Hawaii under contract NNH14CK55B with NASA. Funding for the TESS mission is provided by NASA{\textquoteright}s Science Mission directorate. Some of the data presented here were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and NASA. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. Some of the data presented in this paper were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). The Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. This research has made use of the services of the ESO Science Archive Facility, based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere with the HARPS spectrometer. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia, processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. MINERVA-Australis is supported by Australian Research Council LIEF Grant LE160100001, Discovery Grant DP180100972, Mount Cuba Astronomical Foundation, and institutional partners University of Southern Queensland, MIT, Nanjing University, George Mason University, University of Louisville, University of California Riverside, University of Florida and University of Texas at Austin. This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant numbers JP18H01265 and 18H05439, JST PRESTO grant number JPMJPR1775, NSFC grant number 11673011 and MINECO grant ESP2016-80435-C2-2-R. D.D. acknowledges support for this work provided by NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51372.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute. B.P.B. acknowledges support from National Science Foundation grant AST-1909209. J.W. and P.G. acknowledge support from the Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b fellowship. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.",

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