Discovery and characterization of three warm Jupiters expands knowledge about gas giants, suggesting new insights into their formation.
We report the discovery and characterisation of three transiting warm Jupiters: TIC,147027702b, TIC,245076932b, and TIC,87422071b. These systems were initially identified as transiting candidates using light curves generated from the full-frame images of the TESS mission. We confirmed the planetary nature of these objects with ground-based spectroscopic follow-up observations using FEROS and the new PLATOSpec spectrograph attached to the ESO 1.52 m telescope at the La Silla Observatory, and with ground-based photometric observations of the Observatoire Moana, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope and ASTEP. From a global fit to the photometry and radial velocities, we determine that the planet TIC,147027702b has a low-eccentricity orbit (e = 0.13 ± 0.05) with a period of 44.4 days, a mass of +0.07 _ -0.13 M_J, and a radius of 0.98 ± 0.06 R_J. TIC,245076932b has a moderately low mass of 0.51 ± 0.05 M_J, a radius of 0.97 ± 0.05 R_J, and an eccentric orbit (e = 0.43 ± 0.02) with a period of 21.6 days. TIC,87422071b has a mass of 1.29 ± 0.10 M_J, a radius of 0.97 ± 0.08 R_J, and a slightly eccentric orbit (e = 0.12 ± 0.07) with a period of 11.3 days. These well-characterised warm Jupiters expand the currently limited sample of similar gas giants and provide valuable benchmarks for testing models of giant-planet formation, migration, and tidal evolution.
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