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101 Eclipsing Quadruple Star Candidates Discovered in TESS Full Frame Images

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2023-09-26 v1

Abstract

We present our second catalog of quadruple star candidates, containing 101 systems discovered in TESS Full-Frame Image data. The targets were initially detected as eclipsing binary stars with the help of supervised machine learning methods applied to sectors Sectors 1 through 54. A dedicated team of citizen scientists subsequently identified through visual inspection two sets of eclipses following two different periods. All 101 systems presented here pass comprehensive photocenter motion tests confirming that both sets of eclipses originate from the target star. Some of the systems exhibit prominent eclipse time variations suggesting dynamical interactions between the two component binary stars. One target is an eclipsing quintuple candidate with a (2+1)+2 hierarchical configuration, such that the (2+1) subsystem produces eclipses on the triple orbit as well. Another has recently been confirmed as the second shortest period quadruple reported to date. This catalog provides ephemerides, eclipse depths and durations, sample statistics, and highlights potentially interesting targets for future studies.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2309.14200,
  title  = {101 Eclipsing Quadruple Star Candidates Discovered in TESS Full Frame Images},
  author = {Veselin B. Kostov and Brian P. Powell and Saul A. Rappaport and Tamas Borkovits and Robert Gagliano and Thomas L. Jacobs and Rahul Jayaraman and Martti H. Kristiansen and Daryll M. LaCourse and Tibor Mitnyan and Mark Omohundro and Jerome Orosz and Andras Pal and Allan R. Schmitt and Hans M. Schwengeler and Ivan A. Terentev and Guillermo Torres and Thomas Barclay and Andrew Vanderburg and William Welsh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.14200},
  year   = {2023}
}

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38 pages, 21 figures, 2 tables. Table with targets available online at MNRAS