Three low-mass companions around aged stars discovered by TESS
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Zhou, George R. 2023. "Three low-mass companions around aged stars discovered by TESS." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523 (4), pp. 6162-6185. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1745
Article Title | Three low-mass companions around aged stars discovered by TESS |
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ERA Journal ID | 1074 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Zhou, George R |
Journal Title | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Journal Citation | 523 (4), pp. 6162-6185 |
Number of Pages | 24 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0035-8711 |
1365-2966 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1745 |
Web Address (URL) | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/523/4/6162/7199186 |
Abstract | We report the discovery of three transiting low-mass companions to aged stars: A brown dwarf (TOI-2336b) and two objects near the hydrogen burning mass limit (TOI-1608b and TOI-2521b). These three systems were first identified using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TOI-2336b has a radius of 1.05 ± 0.04 RJ, a mass of 69.9 ± 2.3 MJ and an orbital period of 7.71 d. TOI-1608b has a radius of 1.21 ± 0.06 RJ, a mass of 90.7 ± 3.7 MJ and an orbital period of 2.47 d. TOI-2521b has a radius of 1.01 ± 0.04 RJ, a mass of 77.5 ± 3.3 MJ, and an orbital period of 5.56 d. We found all these low-mass companions are inflated. We fitted a relation between radius, mass, and incident flux using the sample of known transiting brown dwarfs and low-mass M dwarfs. We found a positive correlation between the flux and the radius for brown dwarfs and for low-mass stars that is weaker than the correlation observed for giant planets. We also found that TOI-1608 and TOI-2521 are very likely to be spin-orbit synchronized, leading to the unusually rapid rotation of the primary stars considering their evolutionary stages. Our estimates indicate that both systems have much shorter spin-orbit synchronization time-scales compared to their ages. These systems provide valuable insights into the evolution of stellar systems with brown dwarf and low-mass stellar companions influenced by tidal effects. © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. |
Keywords | (stars:) brown dwarfs; techniques: photometric; techniques: radial velocities ; stars: low mass |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510199. Astronomical sciences not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
Byline Affiliations | Centre for Astrophysics |
School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing |
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