Observation scheduling and automatic data reduction for the Antarctic telescope, ASTEP+
Abstract: The possibility to observe transiting exoplanets from Dome C in Antarctica provides immense benefits: stable weather conditions, limited atmospheric turbulence, and a night that lasts almost three months due to the austral winter. However, this site also presents significant limitations, such as limited access for maintenance and internet speeds of only a few KB/s. This latter factor means that the approximately 6 TB of data collected annually must be processed on site automatically, with only final data produ… Show more
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Three Warm Jupiters around Solar-analog Stars Detected with TESS*
We report the discovery and characterization of three giant exoplanets orbiting solar-analog stars, detected by the TESS space mission and confirmed through ground-based photometry and radial velocity measurements taken at La Silla observatory with FEROS. TOI-2373 b is a warm Jupiter orbiting its host star every ∼13.3 days, and is one of the most massive known exoplanet with a precisely determined mass and radius around a star similar to the Sun, with an estimated mass of m p = 9.3 − 0.2 + 0.2 M jup and a radius of r p = 0.93 − 0.2 + 0.2 R jup . With a mean density of ρ = 14.4 − 1.0 + 0.9 g cm − 3 , TOI-2373 b is among the densest planets discovered so far. TOI-2416 b orbits its host star on a moderately eccentric orbit with a period of ∼8.3 days and an eccentricity of e = 0.32 − 0.02 + 0.02 . TOI-2416 b is more massive than Jupiter with m p = 3.0 − 0.09 + 0.10 M jup , however is significantly smaller with a radius of r p = 0.88 − 0.02 + 0.02 , R jup , leading to a high mean density of ρ = 5.4 − 0.3 + 0.3 g cm − 3 . TOI-2524 b is a warm Jupiter near the hot Jupiter transition region, orbiting its star every ∼7.2 days on a circular orbit. It is less massive than Jupiter with a mass of m p = 0.64 − 0.04 + 0.04 M jup , and is consistent with an inflated radius of r p = 1.00 − 0.03 + 0.02 R jup , leading to a low mean density of ρ = 0.79 − 0.08 + 0.08 g cm − 3 . The newly discovered exoplanets TOI-2373 b, TOI-2416 b, and TOI-2524 b have estimated equilibrium temperatures of 860 − 10 + 10 K, 1080 − 10 + 10 K, and 1100 − 20 + 20 K, respectively, placing them in the sparsely populated transition zone between hot and warm Jupiters.
Three Warm Jupiters around Solar-analog Stars Detected with TESS*
We report the discovery and characterization of three giant exoplanets orbiting solar-analog stars, detected by the TESS space mission and confirmed through ground-based photometry and radial velocity measurements taken at La Silla observatory with FEROS. TOI-2373 b is a warm Jupiter orbiting its host star every ∼13.3 days, and is one of the most massive known exoplanet with a precisely determined mass and radius around a star similar to the Sun, with an estimated mass of m p = 9.3 − 0.2 + 0.2 M jup and a radius of r p = 0.93 − 0.2 + 0.2 R jup . With a mean density of ρ = 14.4 − 1.0 + 0.9 g cm − 3 , TOI-2373 b is among the densest planets discovered so far. TOI-2416 b orbits its host star on a moderately eccentric orbit with a period of ∼8.3 days and an eccentricity of e = 0.32 − 0.02 + 0.02 . TOI-2416 b is more massive than Jupiter with m p = 3.0 − 0.09 + 0.10 M jup , however is significantly smaller with a radius of r p = 0.88 − 0.02 + 0.02 , R jup , leading to a high mean density of ρ = 5.4 − 0.3 + 0.3 g cm − 3 . TOI-2524 b is a warm Jupiter near the hot Jupiter transition region, orbiting its star every ∼7.2 days on a circular orbit. It is less massive than Jupiter with a mass of m p = 0.64 − 0.04 + 0.04 M jup , and is consistent with an inflated radius of r p = 1.00 − 0.03 + 0.02 R jup , leading to a low mean density of ρ = 0.79 − 0.08 + 0.08 g cm − 3 . The newly discovered exoplanets TOI-2373 b, TOI-2416 b, and TOI-2524 b have estimated equilibrium temperatures of 860 − 10 + 10 K, 1080 − 10 + 10 K, and 1100 − 20 + 20 K, respectively, placing them in the sparsely populated transition zone between hot and warm Jupiters.
TOI-199 b: A Well-characterized 100 day Transiting Warm Giant Planet with TTVs Seen from Antarctica
We present the spectroscopic confirmation and precise mass measurement of the warm giant planet TOI-199 b. This planet was first identified in TESS photometry and confirmed using ground-based photometry from ASTEP in Antarctica including a full 6.5 hr long transit, PEST, Hazelwood, and LCO; space photometry from NEOSSat; and radial velocities (RVs) from FEROS, HARPS, CORALIE, and CHIRON. Orbiting a late G-type star, TOI-199 b has a 104.854 − 0.002 + 0.001 day period, a mass of 0.17 ± 0.02 M J, and a radius of 0.810 ± 0.005 R J. It is the first warm exo-Saturn with a precisely determined mass and radius. The TESS and ASTEP transits show strong transit timing variations (TTVs), pointing to the existence of a second planet in the system. The joint analysis of the RVs and TTVs provides a unique solution for the nontransiting companion TOI-199 c, which has a period of 273.69 − 0.22 + 0.26 days and an estimated mass of 0.28 − 0.01 + 0.02 M J . This period places it within the conservative habitable zone.
On December 2021, a new camera box for two-colour simultaneous visible photometry was successfully installed on the ASTEP telescope at the Concordia station in Antarctica. The new focal box offers increased capabilities for the ASTEP+ project. The opto-mechanical design of the camera was described in a previous paper. 1 Here, we focus on the laboratory tests of each of the two cameras, the low-temperature behaviour of the focal box in a thermal chamber, the on-site installation and alignment of the new focal box on the telescope, the measurement of the turbulence in the tube and the operation of the telescope equipped with the new focal box. We also describe the data acquisition and the telescope guiding procedure and provide a first assessment of the performances reached during the first part of the 2022 observation campaign. Observations of the WASP19 field, already observed previously with ASTEP, demonstrates an improvement of the SNR by a factor 1.7, coherent with an increased number of photon by a factor of 3. The throughput of the two cameras is assessed both by calculation of the characteristics of the optics and quantum efficiency of the cameras, and by direct observations on the sky. We find that the ASTEP+ two-colour transmission curves (with a dichroic separating the fluxes at 690nm) are similar to those of GAIA in the blue and red channels, but with a lower transmission in the ASTEP+ red channel leading to a 1.5 magnitude higher B-R value compared to the GAIA B-R value. With this new setting, the ASTEP+ telescope will ensure the follow-up and the characterization of a large number of exoplanetary transits in the coming years in view of the future space missions JWST and Ariel.
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