HD 715 b, a Warm Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant Discovered from a Single TESS Transit

Abstract

Transiting warm Jupiters orbiting bright stars are scarcely known, but a substantial number of these planets have been uncovered by the TESS mission. In this work, we report the discovery and confirmation of a transiting warm Jupiter orbiting the bright (V = 8.70) subgiant star HD 715 (TOI-6893). HD 715 b was originally identified from a single transit event in TESS Sector 70. We acquired two seasons of radial velocity follow-up using the PFS, TRES, and MINERVA-Australis spectrographs, which clearly detect the planetary orbit. At M* = 1.60 ± 0.04 M⊙, HD 715 thus becomes one of the most massive stars known to host a transiting warm Jupiter. From a joint fit to the TESS transit and our RVs, we find that HD 715 b has a 56.40−0.23+0.19 day orbital period and measure a precise mass and radius of 0.635 ± 0.056 MJ and 1.07 ± 0.04 RJ, rendering it a relatively typical member of the warm Jupiter population. The moderate orbital eccentricity of 0.21−0.08+0.07 contrasts with the higher eccentricities of other similar warm Jupiters orbiting evolved stars, indicating a greater diversity in orbital eccentricities than previously known. The absence of additional transits in preceding TESS observations in Sectors 42 and 43 allows us to further refine the range of possible orbital periods to [56.01, 56.35] days. Though the ephemeris uncertainty remains substantial, future photometric observations may nonetheless allow for recovery of the transit of HD 715 b.