TOI-4504: Exceptionally Large Transit Timing Variations Induced by Two Resonant Warm Gas Giants in a Three-planet System

  • Michaela Vítková
  • , Rafael Brahm
  • , Trifon Trifonov
  • , Petr Kabáth
  • , Andrés Jordán
  • , Thomas Henning
  • , Melissa J. Hobson
  • , Jan Eberhardt
  • , Marcelo Tala Pinto
  • , Felipe I. Rojas
  • , Nestor Espinoza
  • , Martin Schlecker
  • , Matías I. Jones
  • , Maximiliano Moyano
  • , Susana Eyheramendy
  • , Carl Ziegler
  • , Jack J. Lissauer
  • , Andrew Vanderburg
  • , Karen A. Collins
  • , Bill Wohler
  • David Watanabe, George R. Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, Sara Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, Marek Skarka

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Abstract

We present a joint analysis of transit timing variations (TTVs) and Doppler data for the transiting exoplanet system TOI-4504. TOI-4504 c is a warm Jupiter-mass planet that exhibits the largest known TTVs, with a peak-to-node amplitude of ∼2 days, the largest value ever observed, and a superperiod of ~930 days. TOI-4504 b and c were identified in public Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data, while the TTVs observed in TOI-4504 c, together with radial velocity (RV) data collected with FEROS, allowed us to uncover a third, nontransiting planet in this system, TOI-4504 d. We were able to detect transits of TOI-4504 b in the TESS data with a period of 2.4261 ± 0.0001 days and derive a radius of 2.69 ± 0.19 R. The RV scatter of TOI-4504 was too large to constrain the mass of TOI-4504 b, but the RV signals of TOI-4504 c and d were sufficiently large to measure their masses. The TTV+RV dynamical model we apply confirms TOI-4504 c as a warm Jupiter planet with an osculating period of 82.54 ± 0.02 days, a mass of 3.77 ± 0.18 MJ, and a radius of 0.99 ± 0.05 RJ, while the nontransiting planet TOI-4504 d has an orbital period of 40.56 ± 0.04 days and a mass of 1.42 − 0.06 + 0.07 MJ. We present the discovery of a system with three exoplanets: a hot sub-Neptune and two warm Jupiter planets. The gas giant pair is stable and likely locked in a first-order 2:1 mean-motion resonance (MMR). The TOI-4504 system is an important addition to MMR pairs, whose increasing occurrence supports a smooth migration into a resonant configuration during the protoplanetary disk phase.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberL22
JournalAstrophysical Journal Letters
Volume978
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 10 2025

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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