252 research outputs found
BEER analysis of Kepler and CoRoT light curves. III. Spectroscopic confirmation of seventy new beaming binaries discovered in CoRoT light curves
(abridged for arXiv) The BEER algorithm searches stellar light curves for the
BEaming, Ellipsoidal, and Reflection photometric modulations that are caused by
a short-period companion. Applying the search to the first five long-run center
CoRoT fields, we identified non-eclipsing candidates with periodic flux
amplitudes of mmag. Optimizing the Anglo-Australian-Telescope pointing
coordinates and the AAOmega fiber-allocations with dedicated softwares, we
acquired six spectra for candidates and seven spectra for another
candidates in a seven-night campaign. Analysis of the red-arm AAOmega spectra,
which covered the range of , yielded a radial-velocity
precision of km/s. Spectra containing lines of more than one star were
analyzed with the two-dimensional correlation algorithm TODCOR. The measured
radial velocities confirmed the binarity of seventy of the BEER candidates
single-line binaries, double-line binaries, and diluted binaries. We
show that red giants introduce a major source of false candidates and
demonstrate a way to improve BEER's performance in extracting higher fidelity
samples from future searches of CoRoT light curves. The periods of the
confirmed binaries span a range of days and show a rise in the number
of binaries per log toward longer periods. The estimated mass ratios
of the double-line binaries and the mass ratios assigned to the single-line
binaries, assuming an isotropic inclination distribution, span a range of
. On the low-mass end, we have detected two brown-dwarf candidates on a
day period orbit. This is the first time non-eclipsing beaming binaries
are detected in CoRoT data, and we estimate that such binaries can be
detected in the CoRoT long-run light curves.Comment: 28 pages, 15 figures, and 11 tables. Accepted for publication in A&
Seventy new non-eclipsing BEER binaries discovered in CoRoT lightcurves and confirmed by RVs from AAOmega
We applied the BEER algorithm to the CoRoT lightcurves from the first five
LRc fields and identified non-eclipsing BEER candidates with periodic
lightcurve modulations and amplitudes of mmag. Medium-resolution
spectra of candidates were obtained in a seven-night AAOmega
radial-velocity (RV) campaign, with a precision of km/s. The RVs
confirmed the binarity of of the BEER candidates, with periods of
days.Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the CoRoT Symposium 3, Kepler KASC-7
joint meeting, EPJ Web of Conference
Physics of Eclipsing Binaries: Modelling in the new era of ultra-high precision photometry
Recent ultra-high precision observations of eclipsing binaries, especially data acquired by the Kepler satellite, have made accurate light curve modelling increasingly challenging but also more rewarding. In this contribution, we discuss low-amplitude signals in light curves that can now be used to derive physical information about eclipsing binaries but that were unaccessible before the Kepler era. A notable example is the detection of Doppler beaming, which leads to an increase in flux when a star moves towards the satellite and a decrease in flux when it moves away. Similarly, Rømer delays, or light travel time effects, also have to taken into account when modelling the supreme quality data that is now available. The detection of offsets between primary and secondary eclipse phases in binaries with extreme mass ratios, and the observation of Rømer delays in the signals of pulsators in binary stars, have allowed us to determine the orbits of several binaries without the need for spectroscopy. A third example of a small-scale effect that has to be taken into account when modelling specific binary systems, are lensing effects. A new binary light curve modelling code, PHOEBE 2.0, that takes all these effect into account is currently being developed
Kepler KOI-13.01 - Detection of beaming and ellipsoidal modulations pointing to a massive hot Jupiter
KOI-13 was presented by the Kepler team as a candidate for having a giant
planet - KOI-13.01, with orbital period of 1.7 d and transit depth of ~0.8%. We
have analyzed the Kepler Q2 data of KOI-13, which was publicly available at the
time of the submission of this paper, and derived the amplitudes of the
beaming, ellipsoidal and reflection modulations: 8.6 +/- 1.1, 66.8 +/- 1.6 and
72.0 +/- 1.5 ppm (parts per million), respectively. After the paper was
submitted, Q3 data were released, so we repeated the analysis with the newly
available light curve. The results of the two quarters were quite similar. From
the amplitude of the beaming modulation we derived a mass of 10 +/- 2 M_Jup for
the secondary, suggesting that KOI-13.01 was a massive planet, with one of the
largest known radii. We also found in the data a periodicity of unknown origin
with a period of 1.0595 d and a peak-to-peak modulation of ~60 ppm. The light
curve of Q3 revealed a few more small-amplitude periodicities with similar
frequencies. It seemed as if the secondary occultation of KOI-13 was slightly
deeper than the reflection peak-to-peak modulation by 16.8 +/- 4.5 ppm. If
real, this small difference was a measure of the thermal emission from the
night side of KOI-13.01. We estimated the effective temperature to be 2600 +/-
150 K, using a simplistic black-body emissivity approximation. We then derived
the planetary geometrical and Bond albedos as a function of the day-side
temperature. Our analysis suggested that the Bond albedo of KOI-13.01 might be
substantially larger than the geometrical albedo.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and
Astrophysic
II.3 Exposure based algorithm for removing systematics out of the CoRoT light curves
This book is dedicated to all the people interested in the CoRoT mission and the beautiful data that were delivered during its six year duration. Either amateurs, professional, young or senior researchers, they will find treasures not only at the time of this publication but also in the future twenty or thirty years. It presents the data in their final version, explains how they have been obtained, how to handle them, describes the tools necessary to understand them, and where to find them. It also highlights the most striking first results obtained up to now. CoRoT has opened several unexpected directions of research and certainly new ones still to be discovered
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