TESS Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Short cadence observations of 4584 eclipsing binaries in Sectors 1-26
Abstract
In this paper we present a catalog of 4584 eclipsing binaries observed during the first two years (26 sectors) of the TESS survey. We discuss selection criteria for eclipsing binary candidates, detection of hither-to unknown eclipsing systems, determination of the ephemerides, the validation and triage process, and the derivation of heuristic estimates for the ephemerides. Instead of keeping to the widely used discrete classes, we propose a binary star morphology classification based on a dimensionality reduction algorithm. Finally, we present statistical properties of the sample, we qualitatively estimate completeness, and discuss the results. The work presented here is organized and performed within the TESS Eclipsing Binary Working Group, an open group of professional and citizen scientists; we conclude by describing ongoing work and future goals for the group. The catalog is available from http://tessEBs.villanova.edu and from MAST.
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@article{arxiv.2110.13382,
title = {TESS Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Short cadence observations of 4584 eclipsing binaries in Sectors 1-26},
author = {Andrej Prsa and Angela Kochoska and Kyle E. Conroy and Nora Eisner and Daniel R. Hey and Luc IJspeert and Ethan Kruse and Scott W. Fleming and Cole Johnston and Martti H. Kristiansen and Daryll LaCourse and Danielle Mortensen and Joshua Pepper and Keivan G. Stassun and Guillermo Torres and Michael Abdul-Masih and Joheen Chakraborty and Robert Gagliano and Zhao Guo and Kelly Hambleton and Kyeongsoo Hong and Thomas Jacobs and David Jones and Veselin Kostov and Jae Woo Lee and Mark Omohundro and Jerome A. Orosz and Emma J. Page and Brian P. Powell and Saul Rappaport and Phill Reed and Jeremy Schnittman and Hans Martin Schwengeler and Avi Shporer and Ivan A. Terentev and Andrew Vanderburg and William F. Welsh and Douglas A. Caldwell and John P. Doty and Jon M. Jenkins and David W. Latham and George R. Ricker and Sara Seager and Joshua E. Schlieder and Bernie Shiao and Roland Vanderspek and Joshua N. Winn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.13382},
year = {2022}
}
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32 pages, 21 figures, accepted to ApJ Supplement Series; comments welcome