posted on 2020-04-23, 14:21authored byM Lendl, F Bouchy, S Gill, LD Nielsen, O Turner, K Stassun, JS Acton, DR Anderson, DJ Armstrong, D Bayliss, C Belardi, EM Bryant, MR Burleigh, SL Casewell, BF Cooke, P Eigmüller, E Gillen, MR Goad, MN Günther, J Hagelberg, JS Jenkins, T Louden, M Marmier, J McCormac, M Moyano, D Pollacco, L Raynard, RH Tilbrook, S Udry, JI Vines, RG West, PJ Wheatley, G Ricker, R Vanderspek, DW Latham, S Seager, J Winn, JM Jenkins, B Addison, C Briceño, R Brahm, DA Caldwell, J Doty, N Espinoza, B Goeke, T Henning, A Jordán, A Krishnamurthy, N Law, R Morris, J Okumura, AW Mann, JE Rodriguez, P Sarkis, J Schlieder, JD Twicken, SV Jr, RA Wittenmyer, DJ Wright, C Ziegler
We report the period, eccentricity, and mass determination for the TESS single-transit event candidate TOI-222, which displayed a single 3000 ppm transit in the TESS two-minute cadence data from Sector 2. We determine the orbital period via radial velocity measurements (P = 33.9 days), which allowed for ground-based photometric detection of two subsequent transits. Our data show that the companion to TOI-222is a low mass star, with a radius of 0.27 R_sun and a mass of 0.23 M_sun. This makes TOI-222 one of the longest period low-mass eclipsing binary systems to be characterised with accurate radii and masses. It also showcases the ability to efficiently discover systems from TESS single transit events using a combination of radial velocity monitoring coupled with high precision ground-based photometry.
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Citation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 492, Issue 2, February 2020, Pages 1761–1769, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3545
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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume
492
Issue
2
Pagination
1761–1769
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP), Royal Astronomical Society