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NGTS and WASP photometric recovery of a single-transit candidate from TESS

  • Samuel Gill
  • , Daniel Bayliss
  • , Benjamin F. Cooke
  • , Peter J. Wheatley
  • , Louise D. Nielsen
  • , Monika Lendl
  • , James McCormac
  • , Edward M. Bryant
  • , Jack S. Acton
  • , David R. Anderson
  • , Claudia Belardi
  • , François Bouchy
  • , Matthew R. Burleigh
  • , Andrew Collier Cameron
  • , Sarah L. Casewell
  • , Alexander Chaushev
  • , Michael R. Goad
  • , Maximilian N. Günther
  • , Coel Hellier
  • , James A. G. Jackman
  • James S. Jenkins, Maximiliano Moyano, Don Pollacco, Liam Raynard, Alexis M. S. Smith, Rosanna H. Tilbrook, Oliver Turner, Stéphane Udry, Richard G. West

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Abstract

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) produces a large numberof single-transit event candidates, since the mission monitors most stars for only ˜27 days. Such candidates correspond to long-period planets or eclipsing binaries. Using the TESS Sector 1 full-frame images, we identified a 7750 ppm single-transit event with a duration of 7 hours around the moderately evolved F-dwarf star TIC-238855958 (Tmag=10.23, Teff=6280±85 K). Using archival WASP photometry we constrained the true orbital period to one of three possible values. We detected a subsequent transit-event with NGTS, which revealed the orbital period to be 38.20 d. Radial velocity measurements from the CORALIE Spectrograph show the secondary object has a mass of M2= 0.148 ± 0.003 M⊙, indicating this system is an F-M eclipsing binary. The radius of the M-dwarf companion is R2 = 0.171 ± 0.003 R⊙, making this one of the most well characterised stars in this mass regime. We find that its radius is 2.3-σ lower than expected from stellar evolution models.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1548–1553
Number of pages6
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume491
Issue number2
Early online date19 Nov 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2020

Keywords

  • Binaries: eclipsing

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