학술논문

Discovery of a young low-mass brown dwarf transiting a fast-rotating F-type star by the Galactic Plane eXoplanet (GPX) survey.
Document Type
Article
Source
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Aug2021, Vol. 505 Issue 4, p4956-4967. 12p.
Subject
*BROWN dwarf stars
*GAS giants
*AGE of stars
*SPECKLE interference
*PLANETARY mass
*STELLAR rotation
*ALGORITHMS
Language
ISSN
0035-8711
Abstract
We announce the discovery of GPX-1 b, a transiting brown dwarf with a mass of 19.7 ± 1.6  M Jup and a radius of 1.47 ± 0.10  R Jup, the first substellar object discovered by the Galactic Plane eXoplanet (GPX) survey. The brown dwarf transits a moderately bright (V = 12.3 mag) fast-rotating F-type star with a projected rotational velocity |$v\sin {\, i_*}=40\pm 10$|  km s−1. We use the isochrone placement algorithm to characterize the host star, which has effective temperature 7000 ± 200 K, mass 1.68 ± 0.10  |$\mathrm{\it M}_\odot$|⁠ , radius 1.56 ± 0.10  |$\mathrm{\it R}_\odot$|⁠ , and approximate age |$0.27_{-0.15}^{+0.09}$|  Gyr. GPX-1 b has an orbital period of ∼1.75 d and a transit depth of 0.90 ± 0.03  per cent. We describe the GPX transit detection observations, subsequent photometric and speckle-interferometric follow-up observations, and SOPHIE spectroscopic measurements, which allowed us to establish the presence of a substellar object around the host star. GPX-1 was observed at 30-min integrations by TESS in Sector 18, but the data are affected by blending with a 3.4 mag brighter star 42 arcsec away. GPX-1 b is one of about two dozen transiting brown dwarfs known to date, with a mass close to the theoretical brown dwarf/gas giant planet mass transition boundary. Since GPX-1 is a moderately bright and fast-rotating star, it can be followed-up by the means of the Doppler tomography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]