1. TOI-1338: TESS' First Transiting Circumbinary Planet
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Jason F. Rowe, Damien Ségransan, Trifon Trifonov, Francesco Pepe, David W. Latham, Giuseppe Pappa, Andrei Tokovinin, Roland Vanderspek, Jon M. Jenkins, Guillermo Torres, Patricia T. Boyd, Billy Quarles, Cesar Briceno, Joel Bergeron, Marc Huten, Andrew Collier Cameron, Stephen R. Kane, Don Pollacco, Joshua N. Winn, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Peter Ansorge, Oliver Turner, Gongjie Li, William F. Welsh, Pierre F. L. Maxted, Frank Barnet, Carl Ziegler, Stéphane Udry, Coel Hellier, Eric T. Wolf, Nader Haghighipour, Tsevi Mazeh, Emily A. Gilbert, Nicholas M. Law, Alan M. Levine, Michaël Gillon, Sara Seager, Thomas Barclay, Andrew W. Mann, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Alexandre C. M. Correia, David V. Martin, Jack J. Lissauer, Adina D. Feinstein, Rosemary A. Mardling, Courtney D. Dressing, Vedad Kunovac Hodžić, Benjamin T. Montet, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Nora L. Eisner, Jerome A. Orosz, Samuel N. Quinn, Mark E. Rose, Wolf Cukier, Matthew R. Standing, Donald R. Short, Timo van der Straeten, Veselin B. Kostov, J. Pepper, G. Furesz, Alexandre Santerne, Joseph D. Twicken, Samuel Gill, George R. Ricker, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Chris Lintott, Jeffrey C. Smith, Elisa V. Quintana, Science & Technology Facilities Council, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews. St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Exoplanet astronomy ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Library science ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Categorical grant ,Eclipsing binary stars ,QB460 ,0103 physical sciences ,QB Astronomy ,media_common.cataloged_instance ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,European union ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,QC ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,QB ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) ,Physics ,Exoplanet astronony ,European research ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,3rd-DAS ,Graduate research ,QC Physics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Work (electrical) ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,QB799 - Abstract
We report the detection of the first circumbinary planet found by TESS. The target, a known eclipsing binary, was observed in sectors 1 through 12 at 30-minute cadence and in sectors 4 through 12 at two-minute cadence. It consists of two stars with masses of 1.1 MSun and 0.3 MSun on a slightly eccentric (0.16), 14.6-day orbit, producing prominent primary eclipses and shallow secondary eclipses. The planet has a radius of ~6.9 REarth and was observed to make three transits across the primary star of roughly equal depths (~0.2%) but different durations -- a common signature of transiting circumbinary planets. Its orbit is nearly circular (e ~ 0.09) with an orbital period of 95.2 days. The orbital planes of the binary and the planet are aligned to within ~1 degree. To obtain a complete solution for the system, we combined the TESS photometry with existing ground-based radial-velocity observations in a numerical photometric-dynamical model. The system demonstrates the discovery potential of TESS for circumbinary planets, and provides further understanding of the formation and evolution of planets orbiting close binary stars., Comment: 35 pages, 21 figures, 6 tables
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- 2020
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