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In transiting planetary systems, where planetary sizes are accurately determined from transit observations, the presence of transit timing variations (TTVs), especially when combined with radial velocity (RV) data, provides powerful…

The existence of a deficit of brown dwarfs (BDs) in close orbit around main-sequence stars is one of the most intriguing questions in stellar physics. This so-called BD desert may result from the transition between two different dominant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 F. Marcadon , A. Prša

The present study reports the confirmation of BD-14 3065b, a transiting planet/brown dwarf in a triple-star system, with a mass near the deuterium burning boundary. BD-14 3065b has the largest radius observed within the sample of giant…

We report the discovery of an intermediate-mass transiting brown dwarf, TOI-503b, from the TESS mission. TOI-503b is the first brown dwarf discovered by TESS and orbits a metallic-line A-type star with a period of $P=3.6772 \pm 0.0001$…

We report the discovery of two transiting brown dwarfs (BDs), TOI-811b and TOI-852b, from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission. These two transiting BDs have similar masses, but very different radii and ages. Their host…

2MASS J03202839-0446358AB is a recently identified, late-type M dwarf/T dwarf spectroscopic binary system for which both the radial velocity orbit for the primary and spectral types for both components have been determined. By combining…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam J. Burgasser , Cullen H. Blake

Studies of solar-type binaries have found coplanarity between the equatorial and orbital planes of systems with $<$40 AU separation. By comparison, the alignment of the equatorial and orbital axes in the substellar regime, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Leon K. Harding , Gregg Hallinan , Quinn M. Konopacky , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Richard P. Boyle , Ray F. Butler , Aaron Golden

We present the discovery of an unusual, tidally-distorted extremely low mass white dwarf (WD) with nearly solar metallicity. Radial velocity measurements confirm that this is a compact binary with an orbital period of 2.6975 hrs and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Gianninas , J. J. Hermes , Warren R. Brown , P. Dufour , Sara D. Barber , Mukremin Kilic , Scott J. Kenyon , Samuel T. Harrold

We report the detection of radio emission and orbital motion from the nearby star-brown dwarf binary WISE J072003.20-084651.2AB. Radio observations across the 4.5-6.5 GHz band with the Very Large Array identify at the position of the system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Adam J. Burgasser , Carl Melis , Jacob Todd , Christopher R. Gelino , Gregg Hallinan , Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi

White dwarfs represent the last stage of evolution of stars with mass less than about eight times that of the Sun and, like other stars, are often found in binaries. If the orbital period of the binary is short enough, energy losses from…

We present the discovery of TOI-1994b, a low-mass brown dwarf transiting a hot subgiant star on a moderately eccentric orbit. TOI-1994 has an effective temperature of $7700^{+720}_{-410}$ K, V magnitude of 10.51 mag and log(g) of…

The Stellar Planet Survey is an ongoing astrometric search for giant planets and brown dwarfs around a sample of about 30 M-dwarfs. We have discovered several low-mass companions by measuring the motion of our target stars relative to their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven H. Pravdo , Stuart B. Shaklan , James Lloyd

The development of large-scale time-domain surveys provides an opportunity to study the physical properties as well as the evolutionary scenario of B-type subdwarfs (sdB) and M-type dwarfs (dM). Here, we obtained 33 sdB+dM eclipsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Min Dai , Xiaodian Chen , Kun Wang , Yangping Luo , Shu Wang , Licai Deng

GJ1132 is a nearby red dwarf known to host a transiting Earth-size planet. After its initial detection, we pursued an intense follow-up with the HARPS velocimeter. We now confirm the detection of GJ1132b with radial velocities only. We…

Benchmark brown dwarfs are those objects for which fiducial constraints are available, including effective temperature, parallax, age, metallicity. We searched for new cool brown dwarfs in 186 sq.deg. of the new area covered by the data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Goldman , S. Marsat , T. Henning , C. Clemens , J. Greiner

We report the discovery of a $M=67\pm2~\mathrm{M_J}$ brown dwarf transiting the early M dwarf TOI-2119 on an eccentric orbit ($e=0.3362 \pm 0.0005$) at an orbital period of $7.200861 \pm 0.000005$ days. We confirm the brown dwarf nature of…

Brown dwarfs bridge the gap between stars and planets, providing valuable insight into both planetary and stellar formation mechanisms. Yet the census of transiting brown dwarf companions, in particular around M dwarf stars, remains…

We report the discovery of a rare close binary system, SMSS J160639.78-100010.7, comprised of a magnetic white dwarf with a field of about 30 MG and a brown dwarf. We measured an orbital period of 92 min which is consistent with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Adela Kawka , Stephane Vennes , Lilia Ferrario , M. S. Bessell , S. C. Keller , E. Paunzen , D. A. H. Buckley , D. Groenewald , J. Janik , M. Zejda

We report on the discovery of the shortest period binary comprising a hot subdwarf star (CD-30 11223, GALEX J1411-3053) and a massive unseen companion. Photometric data from the All Sky Automated Survey show ellipsoidal variations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Vennes , A. Kawka , S. J. O'Toole , P. Nemeth , D. Burton

We present high-speed ULTRACAM and SOFI photometry and X-shooter spectroscopy of the recently discovered 94 minute orbital period eclipsing white dwarf / main-sequence binary SDSS J085746.18+034255.3 (CSS 03170) and use these observations…