Searching for GEMS Three Warm Saturns and a Super-Jupiter Orbiting Four Early M Dwarfs

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Authors
  • Pranav H. Premnath
  • Paul Robertson
  • Shubham Kanodia
  • Caleb I. Cañas
  • Arvind F. Gupta
  • Michael Rodruck
  • Te Han
  • Henry A. Kobulnicky
  • Andrea S.J. Lin
  • Andrew Monson
  • Libby Allely
  • Cooper Bailey
  • Alexina Birkholz
  • Zack Beagle
  • Philip Choi
  • Nez Evans
  • Mark E. Everett
  • Anna Fong
  • S. Nick Justice
  • Ian Karfs
  • Sage Santomenna
  • Elsa Van Dyke
  • Arissa Williams
  • Chad F. Bender
  • William D. Cochran
  • Scott A. Diddams
  • Rachel B. Fernandes
  • Mark R. Giovinazzi
  • Samuel Halverson
  • Daniel M. Krolikowski
  • Suvrath Mahadevan
  • Michael W. McElwain
  • Joe P. Ninan
  • Arpita Roy
  • Gudmundur Stefansson ORCID logo
  • Jason T. Wright
Publication date 08-2026
Journal Astronomical Journal
Article number 92
Volume | Issue number 172 | 2
Number of pages 22
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
We report the confirmation and characterization of four transiting giant planets orbiting early M dwarfs discovered by the Searching for GEMS survey: TOI-7189 b, TOI-7265B b, TOI-7393 b, and TOI-7394B b. Joint modeling of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and ground-based photometry with precision radial velocities from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and NEID spectrographs yields self-consistent orbital and physical parameters for all systems. The planets have short orbital periods (P = 1.25–4.17 days), masses spanning from 0.5 MJ to 2.1 MJ, and radii comparable to Jupiter (0.95 RJ < Rp < 1.02 RJ). TOI-7189 b (0.50 MJ), TOI-7265B b (0.71 MJ), and TOI-7393 b (0.61 MJ) are Saturn-like in mass and density, whereas TOI-7394B b is a dense super-Jupiter (2.10 MJ, ρp ≈ 2.4 g cm−3) on a 1.25-day orbit. All hosts are early M dwarfs with a narrow range of stellar properties, enabling a controlled comparison of giant-planet outcomes around low-mass stars. Three systems orbit super-solar-metallicity stars, while TOI-7393 ([Fe/H] = −0.35 ± 0.16) is the most metal-poor GEMS host identified to date and exhibits kinematics approaching the thin/thick-disk transition, suggestive of an older stellar population. Together, these systems reveal substantial diversity in the masses and bulk properties of short-period giant planets orbiting early M dwarfs, demonstrating that markedly different planetary outcomes can arise around stars with otherwise similar fundamental properties.
Document type Article
Language English
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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae82d3 (Final published version)
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