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Multiple Transits during a Single Conjunction: Identifying Transiting Circumbinary Planetary Candidates from TESS
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- American Astronomical Society, 2020.
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Abstract
- We present results of a study on identifying circumbinary planet candidates that produce multiple transits during one conjunction with eclipsing binary systems. The occurrence of these transits enables us to estimate the candidates' orbital periods, which is crucial as the periods of the currently known transiting circumbinary planets are significantly longer than the typical observational baseline of TESS. Combined with the derived radii, it also provides valuable information needed for follow-up observations and subsequent confirmation of a large number of circumbinary planet candidates from TESS. Motivated by the discovery of the 1108-day circumbinary planet Kepler-1647, we show the application of this technique to four of Kepler's circumbinary planets that produce such transits. Our results indicate that in systems where the circumbinary planet is on a low-eccentricity orbit, the estimated planetary orbital period is within<br />16 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, AJ accepted
- Subjects :
- Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Physics
education.field_of_study
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Conjunction (astronomy)
Population
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Orbital period
01 natural sciences
Exoplanet
Orbit
Space and Planetary Science
Planet
0103 physical sciences
Binary star
Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Circumbinary planet
education
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f26e537e22bf609a8d23dcbc40519f9f