A super-Earth on a close-in orbit around the M1V star GJ 740. A HADES and CARMENES collaboration

Abstract

M-dwarfs have proven to be ideal targets for planetary radial velocity (RV) searches due to their higher planet-star mass contrast. The HADES and CARMENES programs aim to carry out extensive searches of exoplanetary systems around this type of stars in the northern hemisphere, allowing us to address statistically the properties of the planets orbiting these objects. In this work, we perform a spectroscopic and photometric study of one of the program stars (GJ 740), which exhibits a short-period RV signal compatible with a planetary companion. We carried out a spectroscopic analysis based on 129 HARPS-N spectra taken over a time-span of 6 yr combined with 57 HARPS spectra taken over 4 yr, as well as 32 CARMENES spectra taken during more than 1 yr, resulting in a dataset with a time coverage of 10 yr. We also relied on 459 measurements from the public ASAS survey with a time-coverage of 8 yr along with 5 yr of photometric magnitudes from the EXORAP project taken in the $V$, $B$, $R$, and $I$ filters to carry out a photometric study. Both analyses were made using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations and Gaussian Process regression to model the activity of the star. We present the discovery of a short-period super-Earth with an orbital period of 2.37756${}_{-0.00011}^{+0.00013}$ d and a minimum mass of 2.96${}_{-0.48}^{+0.50}$ M${}_{\oplus }$. We offer an update to the previously reported characterization of the magnetic cycle and rotation period of the star, obtaining values of $P_{\mathrm{rot}}$=35.563$\pm$0.071 d and $P_{\mathrm{cycle}}$=2800$\pm$150 d. Furthermore, the RV time-series exhibits a possibly periodic long-term signal which might be related to a Saturn-mass planet of $\sim$ 100 M${}_{\oplus }$.

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