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TESS Duotransit Candidates from the Southern Ecliptic Hemisphere

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2024-01-25 v2

Abstract

Discovering transiting exoplanets with long orbital periods allows us to study warm and cool planetary systems with temperatures similar to the planets in our own Solar system. The TESS mission has photometrically surveyed the entire Southern Ecliptic Hemisphere in Cycle 1 (August 2018 - July 2019), Cycle 3 (July 2020 - June 2021) and Cycle 5 (September 2022 - September 2023). We use the observations from Cycle 1 and Cycle 3 to search for exoplanet systems that show a single transit event in each year - which we call duotransits. The periods of these planet candidates are typically in excess of 20 days, with the lower limit determined by the duration of individual TESS observations. We find 85 duotransit candidates, which span a range of host star brightnesses between 8 < TmagT_{mag} < 14, transit depths between 0.1 per cent and 1.8 per cent, and transit durations between 2 and 10 hours with the upper limit determined by our normalisation function. Of these candidates, 25 are already known, and 60 are new. We present these candidates along with the status of photometric and spectroscopic follow-up.

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@article{arxiv.2310.17268,
  title  = {TESS Duotransit Candidates from the Southern Ecliptic Hemisphere},
  author = {Faith Hawthorn and Sam Gill and Daniel Bayliss and Hugh P. Osborn and Ingrid Pelisoli and Toby Rodel and Kaylen Smith Darnbrook and Peter J. Wheatley and David R. Anderson and Ioan nis Apergis and Matthew P. Battley and Matthew R. Burleigh and Sarah L. Casewell and Philipp Eigmüller and Maximilian N. Günther and James S. Jenkins and Monika Lendl and Maximiliano Moyano and Ares Osborn and Gavin Ramsay and Solène Ulmer-Moll and Jose I. Vines and Richard West},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17268},
  year   = {2024}
}

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25 pages, 16 figures, submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society