TOI-150: A Transiting Hot Jupiter in the TESS Southern CVZ

Canas, Caleb I.; Stefansson, Gudmundur; Monson, Andrew J.; Teske, Johanna K.; Bender, Chad F.; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Aerts, Conny; Beaton, Rachael L.; Butler, R. Paul; Covey, Kevin R.; Crane, Jeffrey D.; De Lee, Nathan; Diaz, Matias R.; Fleming, Scott W.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Hearty, Fred R.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Majewski, Steven R.; Nitschelm, Christian; Schneider, Donald P.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Tkachenko, Andrew; Wang, Sharon X.; Wang, Songhu; Wilson, John C.; Wilson, Robert F.
2019
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
DOI
10.3847/2041-8213/ab21c0
We report the detection of a hot Jupiter (M-p = 1.75(-0.17)(+0.14) M-J, R-p = 1.38 +/- 0.04R(J)) orbiting a middle-aged star (log g = 4.152(-0.043)(+0.030)) in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) southern continuous viewing zone (beta = -79 degrees.59). We confirm the planetary nature of the candidate TOI-150.01 using radial velocity observations from the APOGEE-2 South spectrograph and the Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph, ground-based photometric observations from the robotic Three-hundred MilliMeter Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, and Gaia distance estimates. Large-scale spectroscopic surveys, such as APOGEE/APOGEE-2, now have sufficient radial velocity precision to directly confirm the signature of giant exoplanets, making such data sets valuable tools in the TESS era. Continual monitoring of TOI-150 by TESS can reveal additional planets and subsequent observations can provide insights into planetary system architectures involving a hot Jupiter around a star about halfway through its main-sequence life.