Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP) II: Super-Jupiters and Lithium-rich Host Stars

Abstract

Although hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets discovered orbiting main sequence stars, the dominant mechanisms through which they form and evolve are not known. To address the questions surrounding their origins, the Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP) survey aims to create a complete, magnitude-limited ($G<$12.5) sample of hot Jupiters that can be used to constrain the frequency of different migration pathways. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite provides the unique combination of sky-coverage and photometric precision to achieve this goal, which will likely be a key result of the mission. In this second installment of the MEEP survey, we reanalyze one benchmark hot Jupiter system, TOI-4138, and discover four additional super-Jupiters which are each more than five times as massive as Jupiter: TOI-4773 b, TOI-5261 b, TOI-5350 b, and TOI-6420 b. One of these planets, TOI-5261 b, is 11.49 times the mass of Jupiter, nearly massive enough to ignite deuterium fusion, and has an eccentric ($e=0.1585$) orbit. TOI-4138, TOI-4773, TOI-5350, and TOI-6420 each have lithium absorption features in their spectra. TOI-4138 is an F-type subgiant with a lithium equivalent width of $120.\pm 13$ mÅ, which is $\sim 4.5\sigma$ larger than the median lithium equivalent width of a control sample of 1381 similar stars, making TOI-4138 a compelling candidate for planetary engulfment.

23 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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