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Doomed Worlds. I. No New Evidence for Orbital Decay in a Long-term Survey of 43 Ultrahot Jupiters
Huang, Chelsea X.; Sickafoose, Amanda A.; Jackson, Brian +8 more
Ultrahot Jupiters (UHJs) are likely doomed by tidal forces to undergo orbital decay and eventual disruption by their stars, but the timescale over which this process unfolds is unknown. We present results from a long-term project to monitor UHJ transits. We recovered WASP-12 b's orbital decay rate of ms yr‑1, in agreement with prior wor…
Differential Rotation of CoRoT Stars and a Kepler Binary Star from Starspot Transit Mapping
Valio, Adriana; Araújo, Alexandre; Menezes, Fabian
While direct magnetic field measurements are rare for slowly rotating stars, spots observed during planetary transits provide a potential indicator of magnetic activity on stellar surfaces. Moreover, the rotation of the stellar surface can be probed by monitoring the spots' position with time in subsequent transits. This study investigates the dyn…
TV Mon - post-mass transfer Algol-type binary with δ Scuti pulsations in primary component
Han, Zhanwen; Kovalev, Mikhail; Chen, Xuefei +4 more
We present a study of the detached eclipsing binary TV Mon using spectra from the LAMOST (Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope) medium-resolution survey, ASAS-SN (All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae), and CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) photometry. We apply multiple-epochs spectral fitting to derive rad…
Improved radius determinations for the transiting brown dwarf population in the era of Gaia and TESS
Carmichael, Theron W.
I report updates to the substellar mass-radius diagram for 11 transiting brown dwarfs (BDs) and low-mass stars published before the third data release from the Gaia mission (Gaia DR3). I re-analyse these transiting BD systems whose physical parameters were published between 2008 and 2019 and find that when using the parallax measurements from Gaia…
Testing ultralow amplitude Cepheid candidates in the Galactic disk by TESS and Gaia
Bódi, Attila; Szabó, Róbert; Molnár, László +1 more
Ultralow amplitude (ULA) and strange mode Cepheids are thought to be pulsating variable stars that are near to or are at the edges of the classical instability strip. Until now, a few dozen such variable star candidates have been found both in the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way. For the present work, we studied six ULA Cepheid candidates…
Modelling simultaneous CoRoT and Spitzer light curves: the impact of bending waves in the inner disc
Nagel, E.; Bouvier, J.
We present a physical interpretation of the amplitude of light curves of young stellar objects (YSOs) simultaneously observed in the infrared with the Spitzer Space Telescope and in the optical with the CoRoT satellite. The modelled objects come from a sample of YSOs in the star forming region NGC 2264, and we focus on a subsample showing periodic…
Frequency analysis of the hybrid δ Sct-γ Dor star CoRoT-102314644
Creevey, O. L.; Pichon, B.; Sánchez Arias, J. P. +1 more
Context. Observations from space missions allowed significant progress due to the absence of atmospheric noise contributions and having uninterrupted data sets. This has been extremely beneficial in asteroseismology because many oscillation frequencies, not observable from the ground, can be detected. One example of this success is the large numbe…
The magnetic field and magnetosphere of Plaskett's star: a fundamental shift in our understanding of the system
Wade, G. A.; Neiner, C.; Alecian, E. +7 more
Plaskett's 'star' appears to be one of a small number of short-period binary systems known to contain a hot, massive, magnetic star. We combine an extensive spectropolarimetric (Stokes V) data set with archival photometry and spectropolarimetry to establish the essential characteristics of the magnetic field and magnetosphere of the rapidly rotati…
Sub-stellar companions of intermediate-mass stars with CoRoT: CoRoT-34b, CoRoT-35b, and CoRoT-36b
Alonso, R.; Bouchy, F.; Deleuil, M. +18 more
Theories of planet formation give contradicting results of how frequent close-in giant planets of intermediate mass stars (IMSs; $1.3\le M_{\star }\le 3.2\, \mathrm{M}_{\odot }$) are. Some theories predict a high rate of IMSs with close-in gas giants, while others predict a very low rate. Thus, determining the frequency of close-in giant planets o…
CoRoT-TESS eclipsing binaries with light-travel-time effect
Bódi, A.; Hajdu, T.; Matécsa, B. +1 more
Identifying long-period eclipsing binaries with space-based photometry is still a challenge even in the century of space telescopes due to the relatively short observation sequences and short lifetime of these missions. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space telescope is an appropriate tool to supplement previous space-based observ…