NGTS and WASP photometric recovery of a single-transit candidate from TESS
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.
Citation
Gill , S , Bayliss , D , Cooke , B F , Wheatley , P J , Nielsen , L D , Lendl , M , McCormac , J , Bryant , E M , Acton , J S , Anderson , D R , Belardi , C , Bouchy , F , Burleigh , M R , Collier Cameron , A , Casewell , S L , Chaushev , A , Goad , M R , Günther , M N , Hellier , C , Jackman , J A G , Jenkins , J S , Moyano , M , Pollacco , D , Raynard , L , Smith , A M S , Tilbrook , R H , Turner , O , Udry , S & West , R G 2020 , ' NGTS and WASP photometric recovery of a single-transit candidate from TESS ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 491 , no. 2 , pp. 1548–1553 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3212
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0035-8711Type
Journal article
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Funding:UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) consolidated grant number ST/R000824/1 (ACC).Collections
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