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TESS Discovery of an ultra-short-period planet around the nearby M dwarf LHS 3844
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Vanderspek, Roland; Huang, Chelsea X.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Ricker, George R.; Latham, David W.; Seager, Sara; Winn, Joshua N.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Burt, Jennifer; Dittmann, Jason; Newton, Elisabeth; Quinn, Samuel N.; Shporer, Avi; Charbonneau, David; Irwin, Jonathan; Ment, Kristo; Winters, Jennifer G.; Collins, Karen A.; Evans, Phil; Gan, Tianjun; Hart, Rhodes; Jensen, Eric L. N.; Kielkopf, John; Mao, Shude; Waalkes, William; Bouchy, François; Marmier, Maxime; Nielsen, Louise D.; Ottoni, Gaël; Pepe, Francesco; Ségransan, Damien; Udry, Stéphane; Henry, Todd; Paredes, Leonardo A.; James, Hodari-Sadiki; Hinojosa, Rodrigo H.; Silverstein, Michele L.; Palle, Enric; Berta-Thompson, Zachory; Davies, Misty D.; Fausnaugh, Michael; Glidden, Ana W.; Pepper, Joshua; Morgan, Edward H.; Rose, Mark; Twicken, Joseph D.; Villaseñor, Jesus Noel S.; team, the TESS
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Data from the newly-commissioned \textit{Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite} (TESS) has revealed a "hot Earth" around LHS 3844, an M dwarf located 15 pc away. The planet has a radius of $1.32\pm 0.02$ $R_\oplus$ and orbits the star every 11 hours. Although the existence of an atmosphere around such a strongly irradiated planet is questionable, the star is bright enough ($I=11.9$, $K=9.1$) for this possibility to be investigated with transit and occultation spectroscopy. The star's brightness and the planet's short period will also facilitate the measurement of the planet's mass through Doppler spectroscopy.
Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ Letters. This letter makes use of the TESS Alert data, which is currently in a beta test phase, using data from the pipelines at the TESS Science Office and at the TESS Science Processing Operations Center
Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ Letters. This letter makes use of the TESS Alert data, which is currently in a beta test phase, using data from the pipelines at the TESS Science Office and at the TESS Science Processing Operations Center