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The proposed Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will survey the entire sky to locate the nearest and brightest transiting extrasolar planets with orbital periods up to about 36 days. Here we estimate the number and kind of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-09 Timothy M. Brown , David W. Latham

Compared with previous space-borne surveys, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) provides a unique and new approach to observe Solar System objects. While its primary mission avoids the vicinity of the ecliptic plane by…

Short-period white dwarf+main-sequence binaries are Post-Common-Envelope Binaries (PCEB) that have survived a common envelope phase. Such systems, if detached and eclipsing, enable precise measurements of the constituent stars, providing a…

Continuous data releases throughout the TESS primary mission will provide unique opportunities for the exoplanet community at large to contribute to maximizing TESS's scientific return via the discovery and validation of transiting planets.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Ryan Cloutier

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has a goal of detecting small planets orbiting stars bright enough for mass determination via ground-based radial velocity observations. Here we present estimates of how many exoplanets the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Thomas Barclay , Joshua Pepper , Elisa V. Quintana

The nearby (50 pc) K7V dwarf HIP~41431 (EPIC 212096658) is a compact 3-tier hierarchy. Three K7V stars with similar masses, from 0.61 to 0.63 solar, make a triple-lined spectroscopic system where the inner binary with a period of 2.9 days…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 T. Borkovits , J. Sperauskas , A. Tokovinin , D. W. Latham , I. Csányi , T. Hajdu , L. Molnár

Tight Triple Systems have stars in a hierarchical configuration with a third star orbiting the inner binary with a period of fewer than 1000 days. Such systems are important for understanding the formation and evolution of stars in multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-13 Ayush Moharana , K. G. Helminiak , F. Marcadon , T. Pawar , M. Konacki

The {\it Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite} (TESS) searches for planets transiting bright and nearby stars using high-cadence, large-scale photometric observations. Full Frame Images provided by the TESS mission include large number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. McNeill , M. Mommert , D. E. Trilling , J. Llama , B. Skiff

We report eclipse timing variation analyses of 26 compact hierarchical triple stars comprised of an eccentric eclipsing ('inner') binary and a relatively close tertiary component found in the {\em Kepler} field. We simultaneously fit the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tamas Borkovits , Saul Rappaport , Tamas Hajdu , Janos Sztakovics

A transiting planet invites us to measure its size, mass, orbital parameters, atmospheric composition, and other characteristics. But the invitation can only be accepted if the host star is bright enough for precise measurements of its flux…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Joshua N. Winn

Continuing previous work on the identification and characterization of periodic and non-periodic variations in long and almost uninterrupted high cadence light curves of cataclysmic variables observed by the TESS mission, the results on 23…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Albert Bruch

In this study we identify 11 Kepler systems (KIC 5255552, 5653126, 5731312, 7670617, 7821010, 8023317, 10268809, 10296163, 11519226, 11558882 and 12356914) with a "flip-flop" effect in the eclipse timing variations O-C diagrams of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 A. K. Getley , B. Carter , R. King , S. O'Toole

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered over 6700 nearby exoplanets candidates using the transit method through its all-sky survey. Characterizing the kinematic properties and identifying variable stars for the TESS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Di Wu , Di-Chang Chen , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou , Hai-Feng Wang , Weikai Zong , Subo Dong , Maosheng Xiang , A-Li Luo

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has produced a large number of single transit event candidates which are being monitored by the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). We observed a second epoch for the TIC-231005575 system…

Based on the eclipsing binary catalog provided by \cite{2022ApJS..258...16P}, 84 totally eclipsing contact binaries with stable light curves were selected. The TESS light curves of these 84 targets were studied using the Physics Of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Yani Guo , Kai Li , Liheng Wang , Qiqi Xia , Xiang Gao , Jingran Xu , Jingyi Wang

Heartbeat stars (HBSs) are ideal astrophysical laboratories to study the formation and evolution of binary stars in eccentric orbits and the internal structural changes of their components under strong tidal action. We discover 23 new HBSs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Min-Yu Li , Sheng-Bang Qian , Ai-Ying Zhou , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Er-Gang Zhao , Xiang-Dong Shi , Fu-Xing Li , Qi-Bin Sun

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new worlds, with TESS planet candidates now outnumbering the total number of confirmed planets from $\textit{Kepler}$. Owing to differences in survey design, TESS…

We present the results of a search through the photometric database of eclipsing Kepler binaries (Prsa et al. 2011; Slawson et al. 2011) looking for evidence of hierarchical triple star systems. The presence of a third star orbiting the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Rappaport , K. Deck , A. Levine , T. Borkovits , J. Carter , I. El Mellah , R. Sanchis-Ojeda , B. Kalomeni

We present the results of our spectroscopic observations of eight detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs), selected from the $Kepler$ Eclipsing Binary Catalog. Radial velocities (RVs) were calculated from high resolution spectra obtained with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 K. G. Hełminiak , N. Ukita , E. Kambe , S. K. Kozłowski , P. Sybilski , H. Maehara , M. Konacki , R. K. Pawłaszek

IM Per is a triple star system whose eclipsing pair masses and radii are accurate to within 1 \%. The TESS light curve of the program target exhibits partial eclipses and multiple oscillations with mmag-level amplitudes. It is found that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jae Woo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Hye-Young Kim
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