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Kostov, Veselin B.; Barclay, Thomas; Boyd, Patricia; Gilbert, Emily A.; Orosz, Jerome A.; Welsh, William F.; Feinstein, Adina D.; Martin, David V.; Montet, Benjamin T.; Cukier, Wolf; Haghighipour, Nader; Quarles, Billy; Torres, Guillermo; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Briceno, Cesar; Cameron, Andrew Collier; Correia, Alexandre C. M.; Gill, Samuel; Gillon, Michaël; Haqq-Misra, Jacob2020
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[en] We report the detection of the first circumbinary planet (CBP) found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The target, a known eclipsing binary, was observed in sectors 1 through 12 at 30 minute cadence and in sectors 4 through 12 at 2 minute cadence. It consists of two stars with masses of 1.1 M ⊙ and 0.3 M ⊙ on a slightly eccentric (0.16), 14.6 day orbit, producing prominent primary eclipses and shallow secondary eclipses. The planet has a radius of ∼6.9 R ⊕ and was observed to make three transits across the primary star of roughly equal depths (∼0.2%) but different durations—a common signature of transiting CBPs. Its orbit is nearly circular (e ≈ 0.09) with an orbital period of 95.2 days. The orbital planes of the binary and the planet are aligned to within ∼1°. To obtain a complete solution for the system, we combined the TESS photometry with existing ground-based radial-velocity observations in a numerical photometric-dynamical model. The system demonstrates the discovery potential of TESS for CBPs and provides further understanding of the formation and evolution of planets orbiting close binary stars.
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8a48; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online); ISSN 1538-3881;
; v. 159(6); [26 p.]

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