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PP 018056

HD 89345: a bright oscillating star hosting a transiting warm Saturn-sized planet observed by K2

V. Van Eylen, F. Dai, S. Mathur*, D. Gandolfi, S. Albrecht, M. Fridlund, R. A. García, E. Guenther, M. Hjorth, A. B. Justesen, J. Livingston, M. N. Lund, F. Pérez Hernández*, J. Prieto-Arranz*, C. Regulo*, L. Bugnet, M. E. Everett, T. Hirano, D. Nespral, G. Nowak*, E. Palle*, V. Silva Aguirre, T. Trifonov, J. N. Winn, O. Barragán, P. G. Beck*, W. J. Chaplin, W. D. Cochran, S. Csizmadia, H. Deeg*, M. Endl, P. Heeren, S. Grziwa, A. P. Hatzes, D. Hidalgo*, J. Korth, S. Mathis, P. Montañes Rodriguez*, N. Narita, M. Patzold, C. M. Persson, F. Rodler, A. M. S. Smith
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We report the discovery and characterization of HD 89345b (K2-234b; EPIC 248777106b), a Saturn-sized planet orbiting a slightly evolved star. HD 89345 is a bright star ($V = 9.3$ mag) observed by the K2 mission with one-minute time sampling. It exhibits solar-like oscillations. We conducted asteroseismology to determine the parameters of the star, finding the mass and radius to be $1.12^{+0.04}_{-0.01}~M_\odot$ and $1.657^{+0.020}_{-0.004}~R_\odot$, respectively. The star appears to have recently left the main sequence, based on the inferred age, $9.4^{+0.4}_{-1.3}~\mathrm{Gyr}$, and the non-detection of mixed modes. The star hosts a "warm Saturn" ($P = 11.8$~days, $R_p = 6.86 \pm 0.14~R_\oplus$). Radial-velocity follow-up observations performed with the FIES, HARPS, and HARPS-N spectrographs show that the planet has a mass of $35.7 \pm 3.3~M_\oplus$. The data also show that the planet's orbit is eccentric ($e\approx 0.2$). An investigation of the rotational splitting of the oscillation frequencies of the star yields no conclusive evidence on the stellar inclination angle. We further obtained Rossiter-McLaughlin observations, which result in a broad posterior of the stellar obliquity. The planet seems to conform to the same patterns that have been observed for other sub-Saturns regarding planet mass and multiplicity, orbital eccentricity, and stellar metallicity.

 
Aceptado para publicación en MNRAS | Enviado el 2018-05-24 | Proyecto P/300008, P/301301