The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new worlds, with TESS planet candidates now outnumbering the total number of confirmed planets from Kepler. Owing to differences in survey design, TESS continues to provide planets that are better suited for subsequent follow-up studies, including mass measurement through radial velocity (RV) observations, compared to Kepler targets. In this work, we present the TESS-Keck Survey's (TKS) Mass Catalog: a uniform analysis of all TKS RV survey data that has resulted in mass constraints for 126 planets and candidate signals. This includes 58 mass measurements that have reached ≥5σ precision. We confirm or validate 32 new planets from the TESS mission either by significant mass measurement (15) or statistical validation (17), and we find no evidence of likely false positives among our entire sample. This work also serves as a data release for all previously unpublished TKS survey data, including 9,204 RV measurements and associated activity indicators over our three-year survey. We took the opportunity to assess the performance of our survey and found that we achieved many of our goals, including measuring the mass of 38 small (<4 R⊕) planets, nearly achieving the TESS mission's basic science requirement. In addition, we evaluated the performance of the Automated Planet Finder as survey support and observed meaningful constraints on system parameters, due to its more uniform phase coverage. Finally, we compared our measured masses to those predicted by commonly used mass–radius relations and investigated evidence of systematic bias.
The TESS-Keck Survey. XX. 15 New TESS Planets and a Uniform RV Analysis of All Survey Targets
- Creators
- Polanski, Alex S.
- Lubin, Jack
- Beard, Corey
- Akana Murphy, Joseph M.
- Rubenzahl, Ryan
- Hill, Michelle L.
- Crossfield, Ian J. M.
- Chontos, Ashley
- Robertson, Paul
- Isaacson, Howard
- Kane, Stephen R.
- Ciardi, David R.
- Batalha, Natalie M.
- Dressing, Courtney
- Fulton, Benjamin
- Howard, Andrew W.1
- Huber, Daniel
- Petigura, Erik A.
- Weiss, Lauren M.
- Angelo, Isabel
- Behmard, Aida
- Blunt, Sarah
- Brinkman, Casey L.
- Dai, Fei
- Dalba, Paul A.
- Fetherolf, Tara
- Giacalone, Steven
- Hirsch, Lea A.
- Holcomb, Rae
- Kosiarek, Molly R.
- Mayo, Andrew W.
- MacDougall, Mason G.
- Močnik, Teo
- Pidhorodetska, Daria
- Rice, Malena
- Rosenthal, Lee J.
- Scarsdale, Nicholas
- Turtelboom, Emma V.
- Tyler, Dakotah
- Van Zandt, Judah
- Yee, Samuel W.
- Coria, David R.
- Dulz, Shannon D.
- Hartman, Joel D.
- Householder, Aaron
- Lange, Sarah
- Langford, Andrew
- Louden, Emma M.
- Siegel, Jared C.
- Gilbert, Emily A.
- Gonzales, Erica J.
- Schlieder, Joshua E.
- Boyle, Andrew W.
- Christiansen, Jessie L.
- Clark, Catherine A.
- Fernandes, Rachel B.
- Lund, Michael B.
- Savel, Arjun B.
- Gill, Holden
- Beichman, Charles1
- Matson, Rachel
- Matthews, Elisabeth C.
- Furlan, E.
- Howell, Steve B.
- Scott, Nicholas J.
- Everett, Mark E.
- Livingston, John H.
- Ershova, Irina O.
- Cheryasov, Dmitry V.
- Safonov, Boris
- Lillo-Box, Jorge
- Barrado, David
- Morales-Calderón, María
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Acknowledgement
The authors thank the anonymous referee, whose thorough review greatly increased the quality of this publication. We also thank the time assignment committees of the University of California, the California Institute of Technology, NASA, and the University of Hawaii for supporting the TESS-Keck Survey with observing time at Keck Observatory and on the Automated Planet Finder. We thank NASA for funding associated with our Key Strategic Mission Support project. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts and dedication of the Keck Observatory staff for support of HIRES and remote observing. We recognize and acknowledge the cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are deeply grateful to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. We thank Ken and Gloria Levy, who supported the construction of the Levy Spectrometer on the Automated Planet Finder. We thank the University of California and Google for supporting Lick Observatory and the UCO staff for their dedicated work scheduling and operating the telescopes of Lick Observatory.
We thank Johanna Teske for her encouragement and for providing helpful advice on the initial scope of this project.
This research is partially funded through the Caltech-IPAC Visiting Graduate Research Fellowship (VGRF).
This research is based on data collected by the TESS mission. Funding for the TESS mission is provided by the NASA Explorer Program.
This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program.
This research was carried out in part at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004).
This work was partially support by the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program Grant No. 80NSSC22K1754.
J.V.Z. acknowledges support from the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant 80NSSC22K1606.
E.A.P. acknowledges the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
L.M.W. is supported by the Beatrice Watson Parrent Fellowship and NASA ADAP Grant 80NSSC19K0597.
D.H. acknowledges support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NSSC21K0652), and the Australian Research Council (FT200100871).
I.J.M.C. acknowledges support from the NSF through grant AST-1824644.
A.B. is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, grant No. DGE 1745301.
R.A.R. is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, grant No. DGE 1745301.
C. D. D. acknowledges the support of the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration via the TESS Guest Investigator Program (80NSSC18K1583).
J.M.A.M. is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, grant No. DGE-1842400. J.M.A.M. also acknowledges the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program, which is funded by LSSTC, NSF Cybertraining Grant No. 1829740, the Brinson Foundation, and the Moore Foundation; his participation in the program has benefited this work.
M.R. acknowledges support from Heising-Simons Foundation Grant #2023-4478.
Facilities
Keck:I (HIRES) - , APF (Levy) - , TESS - , Exoplanet Archive -
Series information
RadVel (Fulton & Petigura 2018), Lightkurve (Lightkurve Collaboration et al. 2018), triceratops (Giacalone et al. 2021)
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- 1538-4365
- University of California, Berkeley
- Google (United States)
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 80NM0018D0004
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology Fellowship 80NSSC22K1754
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology Fellowship 80NSSC22K1606
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- American Astronomical Society
- Beatrice Watson Parrent Fellowship
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 80NSSC19K0597
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 80NSSC21K0652
- Australian Research Council
- FT200100871
- National Science Foundation
- AST-1824644
- National Science Foundation
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship DGE-1745301
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 80NSSC18K1583
- National Science Foundation
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship DGE-1842400
- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation
- National Science Foundation
- OAC-1829740
- Brinson Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- 2023-4478
- Caltech groups
- Astronomy Department, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Thirty Meter Telescope