Solaris photometric survey: Search for circumbinary companions using eclipse timing variations

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Title: Solaris photometric survey: Search for circumbinary companions using eclipse timing variations
Authors: Moharana, Ayush, Hełminiak, K. G., Marcadon, F., Pawar, T., Pawar, G., Garczyński, P., Perła, J., Kozłowski, S. K., Sybilski, P., Ratajczak, M., Konacki, M.
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: Astrophysics
Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
More Details: Eclipse timing variations (ETV) have been a successful tool for detecting circumbinary companions to eclipsing binaries (EB). While TESS and Kepler have been prolific for ETV searches, they sometimes can be limited by time and sky coverage which can be addressed by specialised ground-based ETV surveys. We present the initial results from the Solaris photometric survey which uses four 0.5m robotic telescopes in the southern hemisphere to look for circumbinary companions. We present the method of light curve extraction, detrending, and EB modelling using the observations from the Solaris network. Using these light curves we extract precise eclipse timing for 7 EB and look for companions using a Lomb-Scargle periodogram search. We find two possible periodic signals for the target GSC 08814-01026. With the system having strong activity, we check for the feasibility of orbital solutions at these two periods. We find that the 245 +/- 1 d period is due to an M-dwarf mass companion. This makes GSC 08814-01026 a candidate compact hierarchical triple system. The other periodic signal at 146 +/- 1 d is an artefact of stellar activity.
Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in MNRAS following peer review
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05890
Accession Number: edsarx.2310.05890
Database: arXiv
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