Search and characterization of third-body candidates around short-period binaries using Kepler and TESS data

ABSTRACT The study of the orbital period variation of short-period binary systems has been important to understand several physical phenomena, such as the emission of gravitational waves, angular momentum loss via magnetic braking, matter transfer between the components, apsidal motion, quadrupole m...

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Published in:	Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 529; no. 3; pp. 2967 - 2979
Main Authors:	Inácio, Jefferson R P, Macêdo, Isaac M, Ferreira, Éder V X, Lisboa, Ronai, Mendes, Tarciro N C, Pereira, Marildo G, da Silva, José R P, Almeida, Leonardo A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford University Press 18-03-2024
Subjects:	binaries: eclipsing stars: kinematics and dynamics binaries: general methods: data analysis catalogues
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Summary:	ABSTRACT The study of the orbital period variation of short-period binary systems has been important to understand several physical phenomena, such as the emission of gravitational waves, angular momentum loss via magnetic braking, matter transfer between the components, apsidal motion, quadrupole moment variation, and presence of circumbinary bodies. With the advent of large space missions, e.g. Kepler and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an enormous amount of high-precision photometric data with temporal coverage from years to decades has become available. Thus, in this work, we propose to study the orbital period variation of a sample of 253 binary that was observed by both Kepler and TESS and therefore with a temporal coverage of more than 10 yr. The main goal of this paper is the search and characterization of third bodies. Based on the periodicity analysis of the observed minus calculated (O − C) diagram of the sample, 75 of them showed periodic variation and therefore were classified as binary systems with third-body candidates, while the remaining 178 did not show periodic variations. This result is a two-fold increase in tertiary candidates around binary systems compared to the study carried out with only Kepler data. Although our estimated rate of third-body candidates (∼30 per cent) is higher than that obtained only with Kepler data (∼20 per cent), it should be taken as a lower limit.
ISSN:	0035-8711 1365-2966
DOI:	10.1093/mnras/stae357