Two Super-Earths in the 3:2 MMR around KOI-1599

Abstract

We validate the planetary origin of the KOI-1599 transit time variations (TTVs) with statistical and dynamical tests. We re-analysed KEPLER Q1-Q17 light-curves of the star, and we independently derived the TTVs. They appear as strongly anti-correlated, suggestive of two mutually interacting planets. We found similar radii of the candidates, $1.9 \pm 0.2\, \mbox{R}_{\oplus}$ for the inner KOI-1599.02, and $1.9 \pm 0.3 \, \mbox{R}_{\oplus}$ for the outer KOI-1599.01. The standard MCMC TTV analysis constrains the planet masses safely below the dynamical instability limit of $\simeq 3\, \mbox{M}_{\mbox{Jup}} $. The best-fitting MCMC model yields $(9.0\pm 0.3)\, \mbox{R}_{\oplus}$, and $(4.6\pm0.3),\ \mbox{R}_{\oplus}$, for the inner and the outer planet, respectively. The planets are trapped in 3:2 mean motion resonance (MMR) with anti-aligned apsides ($\Delta \varpi =180^{\circ }$) at low-eccentric ($e\simeq 0.01)$ orbits. However, we found that the TTV mass determination depends on eccentricity priors with the dispersion in the (0.01,0.05) range. They permit a second family of TTV models with smaller masses of $\simeq 7\,\mbox{R}_{\oplus}$, and $\simeq 3.6\,\mbox{R}_{\oplus}$, respectively, exhibiting two modes of $\Delta \varpi =0^{\circ },180^{\circ }$ librations. The 3:2 MMR is dynamically robust and persists for both modes. In order to resolve the mass duality, we re-analysed the TTV data with a quasi-analytic model of resonant TTV signals. This model favours the smaller masses. We also reproduced this model with simulating the migration capture of the system into the 3:2 MMR.

17 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication to Monthly Notices of the RAS

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