- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/654/A17
- Title:
- TESS eclipsing binaries apsidal motion
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/654/A17
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The measurement of apsidal motion rates in eccentric eclipsing binaries is a unique way to gain insight into the internal structure of stars through the internal density concentration parameter,k2. High-quality physical parameters of the stellar components,together with precise measurements of the advance of the periastron, are needed for the comparison with values derived from models. As a product of the TESS mission, high-precision light curves of a large number of eclipsing binaries are now available. Using a selection of well-studied, double-lined eccentric eclipsing binary systems, we aim to determine their apsidal motion rates and place constraints on the internal density concentration and compare with the predictions from state-of-the-art theoretical models. We compute times of minimum light using the TESS light curves of 34 eclipsing binaries with precise absolute parameters. We use the changing difference over time between primary and secondary eclipse timings to determine the apsidal motion rate. To extend the time baseline, we combine the high-precision TESS timings with reliable archival data. On the other hand, for each component of our sample of double-lined eclipsing binaries we computed grids of evolutionary stellar models for the observed stellar mass exploring ranges of values of the overshooting parameter, fov, the mixing-length parameter and the metallicity. To find the best solution for the two components we adopt a chi-squared statistic to infer the optimal values of the overshooting parameter and the mixing-length parameter. The theoretical internal structure constants to be compared with the observed values were calculated by integrating the differential equations of Radau for each stellar model. We have determined the apsidal motion rate of 27 double-lined eclipsing binaries with precise physical parameters. The obtained values, corrected for their relativistic contribution, yield precise empirical parameters of the internal stellar density concentration. The comparison of these results with the predictions based on new theoretical models shows very good agreement. Small deviations are identified but remain within the observational uncertainties and the path for a refined comparison is indicated.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/473/2004
- Title:
- TESS-HERMES Survey Data Release 1 catalog
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/473/2004
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will provide high-precision time series photometry for millions of stars with at least a half-hour cadence. Of particular interest are the circular regions of 12{deg} radius centred around the ecliptic poles that will be observed continuously for a full year. Spectroscopic stellar parameters are desirable to characterize and select suitable targets for TESS, whether they are focused on exploring exoplanets, stellar astrophysics or Galactic archaeology. Here, we present spectroscopic stellar parameters (Teff, logg, [Fe/H], vsini, vmicro) for about 16000 dwarf and subgiant stars in TESS' southern continuous viewing zone. For almost all the stars, we also present Bayesian estimates of stellar properties including distance, extinction, mass, radius and age using theoretical isochrones. Stellar surface gravity and radius are made available for an additional set of roughly 8500 red giants. All our target stars are in the range 10<V<13.1. Among them, we identify and list 227 stars belonging to the Large Magellanic Cloud. The data were taken using the High Efficiency and Resolution Multi-Element Spectrograph (HERMES; R~28000) at the Anglo-Australian Telescope as part of the TESS-HERMES survey. Comparing our results with the TESS Input Catalogue (TIC) shows that the TIC is generally efficient in separating dwarfs and giants, but it has flagged more than 100 cool dwarfs (Teff<4800K) as giants, which ought to be high-priority targets for the exoplanet search. The catalogue can be accessed via http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/tess-hermes/, or at Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST).
- ID:
- ivo://archive.stsci.edu/catalogs/TESSINPUT
- Title:
- TESS Input Catalog ConeSearch
- Short Name:
- TIC CS
- Date:
- 06 May 2024 13:23:15
- Publisher:
- Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
- Description:
- The TESS Input Catalog is a comprehensive collection of 1.73 billion sources on the sky, providing stellar parameters for evaluation of potential planetary transit signals. It combines sources from many other catalogs, including 2MASS, LAMOST, SuperBlink, HSOY, RAVE, APOGEE, UCAC, KIC, EPIC, Tycho-2, APASS, AllWISE, SDSS, Gaia DR2, and Hipparcos. It was constructed for the TESS mission to serve as a source for selecting targets to observe with the TESS two-minute cadence, and to provide stellar parameter information for evaluating the properties of transit candidates. MAST catalog holdings are available via Cone Search endpoints. All available missions are listed at http://archive.stsci.edu/vo/mast_services.html. This service provides access to the TESS input catalog (TIC), currently version 8.2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IV/39
- Title:
- TESS Input Catalog version 8.2 (TIC v8.2)
- Short Name:
- IV/39
- Date:
- 03 Mar 2022 07:19:26
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We define various types of "phantom" stars that may appear in the TESS Input Catalog (TIC), and provide examples and lists of currently known cases. We present a methodology that can be used to check for phantoms around any object of interest in the TIC, and we present an approach for correcting the TIC-reported flux contamination factors accordingly. We checked all 2077 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) known as of July 21st 2020 (Sectors 1 to 24) and sent corrections for 291 stars to MAST where they are integrated into the publicly available TIC-8, updating it to TIC 8.1. We used the experience gained to construct an all-sky algorithm searching for "phantoms" which led to 34 million updates integrated into TIC 8.2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IV/38
- Title:
- TESS Input Catalog - v8.0 (TIC-8)
- Short Name:
- IV/38
- Date:
- 11 Feb 2022 14:26:27
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The TIC is used to help identify two-minute cadence target selection for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, and to calculate physical and observational properties of planet candidates. It is for use by both the TESS science team and the public, and it is periodically updated - the current version is TIC-8. TIC-8 uses the GAIA DR2 catalog as a base and merges a large number of other photometric catalogs, including 2MASS, UCAC4, APASS, SDSS, WISE, etc. There are roughly 1.5 billion stellar and extended sources in TIC-8, containing compiled magnitudes including B, V, u, g, r, i, z, J, H, K, W1-W4, and G. This version was released in May 2019, and is expected to be the last official version of the TIC produced by the TESS mission, although future, independent development of the TIC is possible. The TIC is the responsibility of the SAO Arm of the TESS Science Office under the leadership of David Latham. The TESS Target Selection Working Group (TSWG) is co-chaired by Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt) & Joshua Pepper (Lehigh).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/265
- Title:
- TESS-Keck survey. VI. HIP-97166 radial velocity
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/265
- Date:
- 16 Mar 2022 06:42:57
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of HIP-97166b (TOI-1255b), a transiting sub-Neptune on a 10.3day orbit around a K0 dwarf 68pc from Earth. This planet was identified in a systematic search of TESS Objects of Interest for planets with eccentric orbits, based on a mismatch between the observed transit duration and the expected duration for a circular orbit. We confirmed the planetary nature of HIP-97166b with ground-based radial-velocity measurements and measured a mass of M_b_=20{+/-}2M{Earth} along with a radius of R_b_=2.7{+/-}0.1R{Earth} from photometry. We detected an additional nontransiting planetary companion with M_c_sini=10{+/-}2M{Earth} on a 16.8day orbit. While the short transit duration of the inner planet initially suggested a high eccentricity, a joint RV-photometry analysis revealed a high impact parameter b=0.84{+/-}0.03 and a moderate eccentricity. Modeling the dynamics with the condition that the system remain stable over >10^5^ orbits yielded eccentricity constraints e_b_=0.16{+/-}0.03 and e_c_<0.25. The eccentricity we find for planet b is above average for the small population of sub-Neptunes with well-measured eccentricities. We explored the plausible formation pathways of this system, proposing an early instability and merger event to explain the high density of the inner planet at 5.3{+/-}0.9g/cc as well as its moderate eccentricity and proximity to a 5:3 mean-motion resonance.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/215
- Title:
- TESS-Keck survey.V. Radial velocities of HD63935
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/215
- Date:
- 14 Mar 2022 08:19:39
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the discovery of two nearly identically sized sub-Neptune transiting planets orbiting HD63935, a bright (V=8.6mag), Sun-like (Teff=5560K) star at 49pc. TESS identified the first planet, HD63935b (TOI-509.01), in Sectors 7 and 34. We identified the second signal (HD63935c) in Keck High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer and Lick Automated Planet Finder radial velocity data as part of our follow-up campaign. It was subsequently confirmed with TESS photometry in Sector 34 as TOI-509.02. Our analysis of the photometric and radial velocity data yielded a robust detection of both planets with periods of 9.0600{+/-}0.007 and 21.40{+/-}0.0019days, radii of 2.99{+/-}0.14 and 2.90{+/-}0.13R{Earth}, and masses of 10.8{+/-}1.8 and 11.1{+/-}2.4M{Earth}. We calculated densities for planets b and c consistent with a few percent of the planet mass in hydrogen/helium envelopes. We also describe our survey's efforts to choose the best targets for James Webb Space Telescope atmospheric follow-up. These efforts suggest that HD 63935 b has the most clearly visible atmosphere of its class. It is the best target for transmission spectroscopy (ranked by the transmission spectroscopy metric, a proxy for atmospheric observability) in the so far uncharacterized parameter space comprising sub-Neptune-sized (2.6R{Earth}<Rp<4R{Earth}), moderately irradiated (100F{Earth}<Fp<1000F{Earth}) planets around G stars. Planet c is also a viable target for transmission spectroscopy, and given the indistinguishable masses and radii of the two planets, the system serves as a natural laboratory for examining the processes that shape the evolution of sub-Neptune planets.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/899/136
- Title:
- TESS light curve of AGN NGC 4395
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/899/136
- Date:
- 03 Dec 2021 13:06:51
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) for the archetypical dwarf active galactic nucleus (AGN) in the nearby galaxy NGC 4395 hosting a ~105M{sun} supermassive black hole (SMBH). Significant variability is detected on timescales from weeks to hours before reaching the background noise level. The ~month-long, 30 minute-cadence, high-precision TESS light curve can be well fit by a simple damped random walk (DRW) model, with the damping timescale {tau}DRW constrained to be 2.3_-0.7_^+1.8^days (1{sigma}). NGC 4395 lies almost exactly on the extrapolation of the {tau }_DRW_-M_BH_ relation measured for AGNs with BH masses that are more than three orders of magnitude larger. The optical variability periodogram can be well fit by a broken power law with the high-frequency slope (-1.88{+/-}0.15) and the characteristic timescale ({tau}_br_=1/(2{pi}f_br_)=1.4_-0.5_^+1.9^days) consistent with the DRW model within 1{sigma}. This work demonstrates the power of TESS light curves in identifying low-mass accreting SMBHs with optical variability, and a potential global {tau}_DRW}_-M_BH_ relation that can be used to estimate SMBH masses with optical variability measurements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/625/L13
- Title:
- TESS light curve of beta Pictoris
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/625/L13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We search for signs of falling evaporating bodies (FEBs, also known as exocomets) in photometric time series obtained for {beta} Pictoris after fitting and removing its {delta} Scuti-type pulsation frequencies. Using photometric data obtained by the TESS satellite we determined the pulsational properties of the exoplanet host star {beta} Pictoris through frequency analysis. We then pre-whitened the 54 identified {delta} Scuti p-modes and investigated the residual photometric time series for the presence of FEBs. We identify three distinct dipping events in the light curve of {beta} Pictoris over a 105-day period. These dips have depths from 0.5 to 2-millimagnitudes and durations of up to 2-days for the largest dip. These dips are asymmetric in nature and are consistent with a model of an evaporating comet with an extended tail crossing the disc of the star. We present the first broadband detections of exocomets crossing the disc of {beta} Pictoris, complementing the predictions made 20 years earlier by Lecavelier Des Etangs et al. (1999A&A...343..916L). No periodic transits are seen in this time series. These observations confirm the spectroscopic detection of exocomets in calcium H and K lines that have been seen in high resolution spectroscopy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/45
- Title:
- TESS light curve & radial velocities for HD 1397
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/45
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of a transiting planet first identified as a candidate in Sector 1 of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and then confirmed with precision radial velocities. HD 1397b has a mass of M_P_=0.367_-0.023_^+0.022^ M_J_, a radius of R_P_=1.023_-0.013_^+0.013^ R_J_, and orbits its bright host star (V=7.8 mag) with an orbital period of 11.5366+/-0.0003 d on a moderately eccentric orbit (e=0.216_-0.026_^+0.027^). With a mass of M_*_=1.257_-0.029_^+0.029^ M_{sun}_, a radius of R_*_=2.341_-0.019_^+0.022^ R_{sun}_, and an age of 4.46+/-0.25 Gyr, the solar-metallicity host star has already departed from the main sequence. We find evidence in the radial velocity measurements of a secondary signal with a longer period. We attribute it to the rotational modulation of stellar activity, but a long-term radial velocity monitoring would be necessary to discard if this signal is produced by a second planet in the system. The HD 1397 system is among the brightest ones currently known to host a transiting planet, which will make it possible to perform detailed follow-up observations in order to characterize the properties of giant planets orbiting evolved stars.
