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The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-size Planets Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf

  • Authors: Veselin B. Kostov, Joshua E. Schlieder, Thomas Barclay, Elisa V. Quintana, Knicole D. Colón, Jonathan Brande, Karen A. Collins, Adina D. Feinstein, Samuel Hadden, Stephen R. Kane, Laura Kreidberg, Ethan Kruse, Christopher Lam, Elisabeth Matthews, Benjamin T. Montet, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Keivan G. Stassun, Jennifer G. Winters, George Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, David Latham, Sara Seager, Joshua Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, Dennis Afanasev, James J.D. Armstrong, Giada Arney, Patricia Boyd, Geert Barentsen, Khalid Barkaoui, Natalie E. Batalha, Charles Beichman, Daniel Bayliss, Christopher Burke, Artem Burdanov, Luca Cacciapuoti, Andrew Carson, David Charbonneau, Jessie Christiansen, David Ciardi, Mark Clampin, Kevin I. Collins, Dennis M. Conti, Jeffrey Coughlin, Giovanni Covone, Ian Crossfield, Laetitia Delrez, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Courtney Dressing, Elsa Ducrot, Zahra Essack, Mark E. Everett, Thomas Fauchez, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Tianjun Gan, Emily Gilbert, Michaël Gillon, Erica Gonzales, Aaron Hamann, Christina Hedges, Hannah Hocutt, Kelsey Hoffman, Elliott P. Horch, Keith Horne, Steve Howell, Shane Hynes, Michael Ireland, Jonathan M. Irwin, Giovanni Isopi, Eric L.N. Jensen, Emmanuël Jehin, Lisa Kaltenegger, John F. Kielkopf, Ravi Kopparapu, Nikole Lewis, Eric Lopez, Jack J. Lissauer, Andrew W. Mann, Franco Mallia, Avi Mandell, Rachel A. Matson, Tsevi Mazeh, Teresa Monsue, Sarah E. Moran, Vickie Moran, Caroline V. Morley, Brett Morris, Philip Muirhead, Koji Mukai, Susan Mullally, Fergal Mullally, Catriona Murray, Norio Narita, Enric Palle, Daria Pidhorodetska, David Quinn, Howard Relles, Stephen Rinehart, Matthew Ritsko, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Pamela Rowden, Jason F. Rowe, Daniel Sebastian, Ramotholo Sefako, Sahar Shahaf, Avi Shporer, Naylynn Tañón Reyes, Peter Tenenbaum, Eric B. Ting, Joseph D. Twicken, Gerard T. van Belle, Laura Vega, Jeffrey Volosin, Lucianne M. Walkowicz, and Allison Youngblood

2019 The Astronomical Journal 158 32.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 18.

The evolution of the planets’ semimajor axes (left panels) and eccentricities (right panels) for the corresponding best-fit (upper panels) and best-fit+1σ (lower panels) masses for 1 million orbits of the outer planet (L 98-59 d), and assuming initially circular orbits. The orbital elements do not experience drastic variations, and the system is dynamically stable for the duration of the integrations.

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