TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) XI: An Earth-sized Planet Orbiting a Nearby, Solar-like Host in the 400Myr Ursa Major Moving Group
Young terrestrial worlds are critical test beds to constrain prevailing theories of planetary formation and evolution. We present the discovery of HD 63433d - a nearby (22pc), Earth-sized planet transiting a young sunlike star (TOI-1726, HD 63433). HD 63433d is the third planet detected in this mult...
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Zusammenfassung: | Young terrestrial worlds are critical test beds to constrain prevailing
theories of planetary formation and evolution. We present the discovery of HD
63433d - a nearby (22pc), Earth-sized planet transiting a young sunlike star
(TOI-1726, HD 63433). HD 63433d is the third planet detected in this
multiplanet system. The kinematic, rotational, and abundance properties of the
host star indicate that it belongs to the young (414 $\pm$ 23 Myr) Ursa Major
moving group, whose membership we update using new data from Gaia DR3 and TESS.
Our transit analysis of the TESS light curves indicates that HD 63433 d has a
radius of 1.1 $R_\oplus$ and closely orbits its host star with a period of 4.2
days. To date, HD 63433 d is the smallest confirmed exoplanet with an age less
than 500 Myr, and the nearest young Earth-sized planet. Furthermore, the
apparent brightness of the stellar host (V $\approx$ 6.9 mag) makes this
transiting multiplanet system favorable to further investigations, including
spectroscopic follow-up to probe atmospheric loss in a young Earth-sized world. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2401.04785 |