text: 430,37,1088106875617464320,192826908,Jorge Lillo-Box,"Is TOI-178.01-02 the first pair of #coorbital exoplanets? In this new TROY paper by Adrien Leleu, we analyze this intriguing system detected by @NASA_TESS with a potential 3:2:2 resonance planetary system. <LINK> Thread 👇 (1/4) Three planets were detected by @NASA_TESS around the star TOI-178. The outer two planet candidates displayed very similar periods of 9.95d and 10.35d which transit 60º apart.... <LINK> (2/4) The inner planet is located in a 3:2 resonance with other two. We demonstrate that if the planets are confirmed, only the co-orbital scenario for the outer planets can maintain this system long-term stable (Credit image: Helena Morais & Fathi Namouni) <LINK> (3/4) Depending on the mass ratio of the two coorbital planets (m1 and m2) and the star (m0), they would be configured in tadpole (orange region) or horshoe (purple region) orbits. <LINK> (4/4) And this is not the only system with these characteristics! Other systems from the Kepler mission were discarded because of this weird similar-period pair. In this paper we demonstrate that those system can exist and provide the tool to confirm their nature through TTVs! <LINK>",https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07250,"Despite the existence of co-orbital bodies in the solar system, and the prediction of the formation of co-orbital planets by planetary system formation models, no co-orbital exoplanets (also called trojans) have been detected thus far. Here we study the signature of co-orbital exoplanets in transit surveys when two planet candidates in the system orbit the star with similar periods. Such pair of candidates could be discarded as false positives because they are not Hill-stable. However, horseshoe or long libration period tadpole co-orbital configurations can explain such period similarity. This degeneracy can be solved by considering the Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) of each planet. We then focus on the three planet candidates system TOI-178: the two outer candidates of that system have similar orbital period and had an angular separation near $\pi/3$ during the TESS observation of sector 2. Based on the announced orbits, the long-term stability of the system requires the two close-period planets to be co-orbitals. Our independent detrending and transit search recover and slightly favour the three orbits close to a 3:2:2 resonant chain found by the TESS pipeline, although we cannot exclude an alias that would put the system close to a 4:3:2 configuration. We then analyse in more detail the co-orbital scenario. We show that despite the influence of an inner planet just outside the 2:3 mean-motion resonance, this potential co-orbital system can be stable on the Giga-year time-scale for a variety of planetary masses, either on a trojan or a horseshoe orbit. We predict that large TTVs should arise in such configuration with a period of several hundred days. We then show how the mass of each planet can be retrieved from these TTVs. ",Co-orbital exoplanets from close period candidates: The TOI-178 case,5,"['Is TOI-178.01-02 the first pair of #coorbital exoplanets? In this new TROY paper by Adrien Leleu, we analyze this intriguing system detected by @NASA_TESS with a potential 3:2:2 resonance planetary system. <LINK> Thread 👇', '(1/4) Three planets were detected by @NASA_TESS around the star TOI-178. The outer two planet candidates displayed very similar periods of 9.95d and 10.35d which transit 60º apart.... https://t.co/Y1rPV7OzRj', '(2/4) The inner planet is located in a 3:2 resonance with other two.  We demonstrate that if the planets are confirmed, only the co-orbital scenario for the outer planets can maintain this system long-term stable (Credit image: Helena Morais &amp; Fathi Namouni) https://t.co/jqeeMIATJ7', '(3/4) Depending on the mass ratio of the two coorbital planets (m1 and m2) and the star (m0), they would be configured in tadpole (orange region) or horshoe (purple region) orbits. https://t.co/CLNMd8DyeG', '(4/4) And this is not the only system with these characteristics! Other systems from the Kepler mission were discarded because of this weird similar-period pair. In this paper we demonstrate that those system can exist and provide the tool to confirm their nature through TTVs! https://t.co/f6jI6BxzJg']",19,01,1150