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The interiors of giant planets remain poorly understood. Even for the planets in the Solar System, difficulties in observation lead to major uncertainties in the properties of planetary cores. Exoplanets that have undergone rare evolutionary pathways provide a new route to understanding planetary interiors. We present the discovery of TOI-849b, the remnant core of a giant planet, with a radius smaller than Neptune but an anomalously high mass M_p = 40.8^(+2.4)_(−2.5) M_⊕ and density of 5.5 ± 0.8 g cm⁻³, similar to the Earth. Interior structure models suggest that any gaseous envelope of pure hydrogen and helium consists of no more than 3.9^(+0.8)_(−0.9)% of the total mass of the planet. TOI-849b transits a late G type star (T_(mag) = 11.5) with an orbital period of 18.4 hours, leading to an equilibrium temperature of 1800K. The planet's mass is larger than the theoretical threshold mass for runaway gas accretion. As such, the planet could have been a gas giant before undergoing extreme mass loss via thermal self-disruption or giant planet collisions, or it avoided substantial gas accretion, perhaps through gap opening or late formation. Photoevaporation rates cannot provide the mass loss required to reduce a Jupiter-like gas giant, but can remove a few M⊕ hydrogen and helium envelope on timescales of several Gyr, implying that any remaining atmosphere is likely to be enriched by water or other volatiles from the planetary interior. TOI-849b represents a unique case where material from the primordial core is left over from formation and available to study.
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| Additional Information: | This paper includes data collected by the TESS missions, which are publicly available from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). Funding for the TESS mission is provided by NASA's Science Mission directorate. We acknowledge the use of public TESS Alert data from pipelines at the TESS Science Office and at the TESS Science Processing Operations Center. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center for the production of the SPOC data products. This research has made use of the Exoplanet Follow-up Observation Program website and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which are operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. This work makes use of observations from the LCOGT network. Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 1102.C-0249. Based in part on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO program P103.C-0449. DJA, DV and SLC respectively acknowledge support from the STFC via Ernest Rutherford Fellowships (ST/R00384X/1), (ST/P003850/1) and (ST/R003726/1). GMK is supported by the Royal Society as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. FM. acknowledges support from the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. K.G.S. acknowledges partial support from NASA grant 17-XRP17 2-0024. C.Z. is supported by a Dunlap Fellowship at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, funded through an endowment established by the Dunlap family and the University of Toronto. A.W.M was supported by NASA grant 80NSSC19K0097 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DJAB acknowledges support from the UK Space Agency. CXH and MNG acknowledge support from the Juan Carlos Torres Fellowship. This work was financed by FEDER - Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional funds through the COMPETE 2020 - Operacional Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI), and by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia in the framework of the projects UID/FIS/04434/2019; PTDC/FIS-AST/32113/2017 & POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032113; PTDC/FISAST/28953/2017 & POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028953. SSou, VAdi, SCCBar, ODSD acknowledge support from FCT through Investigador FCT contracts nr. IF/00028/2014/CP1215/CT0002, IF/00650/2015/CP1273/CT0001, and IF/01312/2014/CP1215/CT0004, DL 57/2016/CP1364/CT0004. SHoj acknowledge support by the fellowships PD/BD/128119/2016 funded by FCT (Portugal). Work by JNW was partly funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation. CAW would like to acknowledge support from UK Science Technology and Facility Council grant ST/P000312/1. JLil and DBar are funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Projects No.ESP2017-87676-C5-1-R and No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu-Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC). JSJ acknowledges funding by Fondecyt through grant 1161218 and partial support from CATA-Basal (PB06, Conicyt). JIV acknowledges support of CONICYT-PFCHA/Doctorado Nacional-21191829, Chile. The French group acknowledges financial support from the French Programme National de Planétologie (PNP, INSU). FM acknowledges support from the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. Author Contributions: DJArm is PI of the NCORES HARPS programme which measured the planet's mass, a member of the NGTS consortium, developed much of the text and main figures and coordinated all contributions. TLop performed the joint PASTIS analysis. VAdi, SSou, NSan performed stellar spectral analysis including chemical abundances. RBoo, FMer provided text analysing potential formation scenarios. KACol, EJen coordinated the TFOP SG1 photometric followup of the system. KICol, TGan, performed analysis of LCOGT photometric followup of the system. AEms, CMor performed and analyses the Bern Population Synthesis Models. CHua, LSha developed and ran the MIT Quick Look Pipeline which identified the candidate in the TESS data. GKin performed the photoevaporation analysis. JLil obtained and analyses the Astralux data, and synthesised all HR imaging results. EMat obtained the NaCo imaging data. HOsb contributed to the NCORES HARPS programme and the NGTS survey, and contributed to the main figures. JOte, OMou, MDel, RHel, MLoz, CDor performed interior structure calculations. DVer performed analysis on the potential for tidal self-disruption. CZie obtained the SOAR data and provided text summarising SOAR results. TGTan obtained a further transit with the PEST telescope. JLiss contributed to the internal structure discussion. KSta provided the independent check of stellar parameters. MBro, SGan calculated estimates of required telescope time for atmospheric characterisation. DRAnd, MMoy contributed to the maintenance and operation of the NGTS facility. EBry, CWat, JSJen, JIVin, JAct, DBay, CBel, MBur, SCas, ACha, PEig, SGil, MGoa, MGue, MLen, JMcC, DPol, DQue, LRay, RTil, RWes contributed to the NGTS facility, either in planning, management, data collection or detrending. DJABro, SHoj, DBar, SCCBar, PAW, LNie, DBay, FBou, BCoo, RDia, ODem, XDum, PFig, JJac, GKen, ASan, SUdr, PWil, JAlm contributed to the HARPS large programme under which HARPS data was obtained. DCia, ICro, JSch, SHow contributed to the NaCo imaging data. CBri, NLaw, AMan contributed to the SOAR imaging data. KDCol, MFau, JoJen, EJen, GRic, PRow, SSea, ETin, RVan, JWin, JNVil, ZZan provided essential contributions to the TESS mission which discovered the candidate. All authors read the manuscript and provided general comments. 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