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NGTS-11 b / TIC-54002556 b: A transiting warm Saturn recovered from a
TESS single-transit event
journal contribution
posted on 2020-05-11, 09:40authored bySamuel Gill, Peter J Wheatley, Benjamin F Cooke, Andrés Jordán, Louise D Nielsen, Daniel Bayliss, David R Anderson, Jose I Vines, Monika Lendl, Jack S Acton, David J Armstrong, François Bouchy, Rafael Brahm, Edward M Bryant, Matthew R Burleigh, Sarah L Casewell, Philipp Eigmüller, Néstor Espinoza, Edward Gillen, Michael R Goad, Nolan Grieves, Maximilian N Günther, Thomas Henning, Melissa J Hobson, Aleisha Hogan, James S Jenkins, James McCormac, Maximiliano Moyano, Hugh P Osborn, Don Pollacco, Didier Queloz, Heike Rauer, Felipe Rojas, Paula Sarkis, Alexis MS Smith, Marcelo Tala Pinto, Rosanna H Tilbrook, Stéphane Udry, Christopher A Watson, Richard G West
We report the discovery of NGTS-11 b (=TIC-54002556 b), a transiting Saturn
in a 35.46-day orbit around a mid K-type star (Teff=5050+-80 K). The system was
initially identified from a single-transit event in our TESS full-frame image
light-curves. Following seventy-nine nights of photometric monitoring with an
NGTS telescope, we observed a second full transit of NGTS-11 b approximately
one year after the TESS single-transit event. The NGTS transit confirmed the
parameters of the transit signal and restricted the orbital period to a set of
13 discrete periods. We combined our transit detections with precise radial
velocity measurements to determine the true orbital period and measure the mass
of the planet. We find NGTS-11 b has a radius of 0.823+-0.035 RJup, a mass of
0.37+-0.14 MJup, and an equilibrium temperature of just 440+-40 K, making it
one of the coolest known transiting gas giants. NGTS-11 b is the first
exoplanet to be discovered after being initially identified as a TESS single
transit event, and its discovery highlights the power of intense photometric
monitoring in recovering longer-period transiting exoplanets from
single-transit events.