J 2022

TIC 114936199: A Quadruple Star System with a 12 Day Outer-orbit Eclipse

POWELL, Brian P., Saul A. RAPPAPORT, Tamas BORKOVITS, Veselin B. KOSTOV, Guillermo TORRES et. al.

Basic information

Original name

TIC 114936199: A Quadruple Star System with a 12 Day Outer-orbit Eclipse

Authors

POWELL, Brian P., Saul A. RAPPAPORT, Tamas BORKOVITS, Veselin B. KOSTOV, Guillermo TORRES, Rahul JAYARAMAN, David W. LATHAM, Hana KUČÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zoltan GARAI, Theodor PRIBULLA, Andrew VANDERBURG, Ethan KRUSE, Thomas BARCLAY, Greg OLMSCHENK, Martti H. K. KRISTIANSEN, Robert GAGLIANO, Thomas L. JACOBS, Daryll M. LACOURSE, Mark OMOHUNDRO, Hans M. SCHWENGELER, Ivan A. TERENTEV and Allan R. SCHMITT

Edition

Astrophysical Journal, GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a, 2022, 0004-637X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19630/22:A0000199

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

UT WoS

000870477500001

Keywords in English

radial-velocities;stellar tracks;triple stars;binaries;isochrones;evolution

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 2/2/2023 08:45, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

V originále

We report the discovery with TESS of a remarkable quadruple star system with a 2+1+1 configuration. The two unique characteristics of this system are that (i) the inner eclipsing binary (stars Aa and Ab) eclipses the star in the outermost orbit (star C), and (ii) these outer fourth-body eclipses last for similar to 12 days, the longest of any such system known. The three orbital periods are similar to 3.3 days, similar to 51 days, and similar to 2100 days. The extremely long duration of the outer eclipses is due to the fact that star B slows binary A down on the sky relative to star C. We combine TESS photometric data, ground-based photometric observations, eclipse timing points, radial velocity measurements, the composite spectral energy distribution, and stellar isochrones in a spectrophotodynamical analysis to deduce all of the basic properties of the four stars (mass, radius, T (eff), and age), as well as the orbital parameters for all three orbits. The four masses are M (Aa) = 0.382 M (circle dot), M (Ab) = 0.300 M (circle dot), M (B) = 0.540 M (circle dot), and M (C) = 0.615 M (circle dot), with a typical uncertainty of 0.015 M (circle dot).