Using data from the MEarth-North and MEarth-South transit surveys, we present the detection of eclipses in four mid M-dwarf systems: LP 107-25, LP 261-75, LP 796-24, and LP 991-15. Combining the MEarth photometry with spectroscopic follow-up observations, we show that LP 107-25 and LP 796-24 are short-period (1.388 and 0.523 day, respectively) eclipsing binaries in triple-lined systems with substantial third light contamination from distant companions. LP 261-75 is a short-period (1.882 day) single-lined system consisting of a mid M-dwarf eclipsed by a probable brown dwarf secondary, with another distant visual brown dwarf companion. LP 991-15 is a long-period (29.3 day) double-lined eclipsing binary on an eccentric orbit with a geometry which produces only primary eclipses. A spectroscopic orbit is given for LP 991-15, and initial orbits for LP 107-25 and LP 261-75.
@article{arxiv.1808.03243,
title = {Four new eclipsing mid M-dwarf systems from the New Luyten Two Tenths catalog},
author = {Jonathan M. Irwin and David Charbonneau and Gilbert A. Esquerdo and David W. Latham and Jennifer G. Winters and Jason A. Dittmann and Elisabeth R. Newton and Zachory K. Berta-Thompson and Perry Berlind and Michael L. Calkins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03243},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
17 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables, emulateapj format. Accepted for publication in AJ