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Verification of Gaia DR3 Single-lined Spectroscopic Binary Solutions With Three Transiting Low-mass Secondaries

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2023-10-13 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

While secondary mass inferences based on single-lined spectroscopic binary (SB1) solutions are subject to sini\sin{i} degeneracies, this degeneracy can be lifted through the observations of eclipses. We combine the subset of Gaia Data Release (DR) 3 SB1 solutions consistent with brown dwarf-mass secondaries with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Object of Interest (TOI) list to identify three candidate transiting brown dwarf systems. Ground-based precision radial velocity follow-up observations confirm that TOI-2533.01 is a transiting brown dwarf with M=723+3 MJup=0.0690.003+0.003 MM=72^{+3}_{-3}~M_{\text{Jup}}= 0.069^{+0.003}_{-0.003}~M_\odot orbiting TYC 2010-124-1 and that TOI-5427.01 is a transiting very low-mass star with M=932+2 MJup=0.0880.002+0.002 MM=93^{+2}_{-2}~M_{\text{Jup}}=0.088^{+0.002}_{-0.002}~M_\odot orbiting UCAC4 515-012898. We validate TOI-1712.01 as a very low-mass star with M=827+7 MJup=0.0790.007+0.007 MM=82^{+7}_{-7}~M_{\text{Jup}}=0.079^{+0.007}_{-0.007}~M_\odot transiting the primary in the hierarchical triple system BD+45 1593. Even after accounting for third light, TOI-1712.01 has radius nearly a factor of two larger than predicted for isolated stars with similar properties. We propose that the intense instellation experienced by TOI-1712.01 diminishes the temperature gradient near its surface, suppresses convection, and leads to its inflated radius. Our analyses verify Gaia DR3 SB1 solutions in the low Doppler semiamplitude limit, thereby providing the foundation for future joint analyses of Gaia radial velocities and Kepler, K2, TESS, and PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations (PLATO) light curves for the characterization of transiting massive brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars.

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@article{arxiv.2310.07936,
  title  = {Verification of Gaia DR3 Single-lined Spectroscopic Binary Solutions With Three Transiting Low-mass Secondaries},
  author = {Stephen P. Schmidt and Kevin C. Schlaufman and Keyi Ding and Samuel K. Grunblatt and Theron Carmichael and Allyson Bieryla and Joseph E. Rodriguez and Jack Schulte and Noah Vowell and George Zhou and Samuel N. Quinn and Samuel W. Yee and Joshua N. Winn and Joel D. Hartman and David W. Latham and Douglas A. Caldwell and M. M. Fausnaugh and Christina Hedges and Jon M. Jenkins and Hugh P. Osborn and S. Seager},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07936},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

25 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables; Accepted to AJ

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