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A&A
Volume 561, January 2014
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| Article Number | L1 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Letters | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323067 | |
| Published online | 17 December 2013 | |
SOPHIE velocimetry of Kepler transit candidates
X. KOI-142 c: first radial velocity confirmation of a non-transiting exoplanet discovered by transit timing⋆,⋆⋆
1 Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388 Marseille, France
e-mail: susana.barros@lam.fr
2 Centro de Astrofísica, Universidade do Porto, rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal
3 Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR7095 CNRS, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, 98bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
4 Observatoire de Haute-Provence, Université d’Aix-Marseille & CNRS, 04870 Saint Michel l’ Observatoire, France
5 INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, via Osservatorio 20, 10025 Pino Torinese, Italy
6 CNRS, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation, 65-1238 Mamalahoa Hwy., Kamuela, HI 96743, USA
7 Observatoire Astronomique de l’Université de Genève, 51 chemin des Maillettes, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
Received: 15 November 2013
Accepted: 25 November 2013
The exoplanet KOI-142b (Kepler-88b) shows transit timing variations (TTVs) with a semi-amplitude of ~12 h, which earned it the nickname “king of transit variations”. Only the transit of planet b was detected in the Kepler data with an orbital period of ~10.92 days and a radius of ~0.36 RJup. The TTVs together with the transit duration variations of KOI-142b were analysed recently, finding a unique solution for a companion-perturbing planet. An outer non-transiting companion was predicted, KOI-142c, with a mass of 0.626 ± 0.03 MJup and a period of 22.3397-0.0018+0.0021 days, which is close to the 2:1 mean-motion resonance with the inner transiting planet. We report an independent confirmation of KOI-142c using radial velocity observations with the SOPHIE spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence. We derive an orbital period of 22.10 ± 0.25 days and a minimum planetary mass of 0.760.16+0.32 MJup, both in good agreement with the predictions by previous transit timing analysis. Therefore, this is the first radial velocity confirmation of a non-transiting planet discovered with TTVs, providing an independent validation of the TTVs technique.
Key words: planetary systems / stars: fundamental parameters / techniques: spectroscopic / techniques: radial velocities / stars: individual: KIC5446285 / stars: individual: Kepler-88
Based on observations collected with the NASA Kepler satellite and with the SOPHIE spectrograph on the 1.93-m telescope at Observatoire de Haute-Provence (CNRS), France.
Tables 2 and 3 are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
© ESO, 2013
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