Confirmation of the hot super-Neptune TOI-672 b with NIRPS and HARPS and Insights into the Neptunian desert around M dwarfs
arXiv:2603.12345 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202558343
Abstract
The Neptunian desert is a distinct lack of Neptune-sized planets at short orbital periods, purportedly carved by photoevaporation and tidal circularization following high-eccentricity migration. Constraining these processes and how they vary across different host-star spectral types requires the detailed characterization of planets in the desert and around its boundaries. In this study, we confirm the planetary nature of a massive super-Neptune identified by TESS around the M0 dwarf TOI-672. We analyse photometry from TESS and ExTrA and precise radial velocity measurements taken with the recently commissioned Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) and HARPS spectrographs. We measure the planetary orbital period, radius, and mass of 3.634 days, 5.31 +0.24 -0.26 Rearth, and 50.9 +4.5 -4.4 Mearth, respectively. Our findings place TOI-672 b within the Neptunian ridge, a pile-up of planets from 3--5 days at the Neptunian desert boundary. We then use a novel approach to determine the desert boundaries in period-radius space and instellation-radius space, and, for the first time, compare the Neptunian desert boundaries for planets orbiting FGK versus M dwarf stars. We determine that the boundary ridge shifts slightly inward from 3.3 +- 1.4 days for FGK host stars to 2.2 +- 1.0 days for M dwarf host stars; these values do not statistically significantly differ from each other, and the shift to shorter periods for M dwarf planets is smaller than theoretical photoevaporation models predict. We also find that TOI-672 b is a single-planet system within the sensitivity limits of our RV and TTV datasets.
23 pages + 8 pages appendices, 22 figures, 11 tables, data available in source files and at CDS/ExoFOP. Accepted for publication in A&A
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