Publications (4)
A dearth of small particles in the transiting material around the white dwarf WD 1145+017
S. Xu, S. Rappaport, R. van Lieshout +35
White dwarf WD 1145+017 is orbited by several clouds of dust, possibly emanating from actively disintegrating bodies. These dust clouds reveal themselves through deep, broad, and e…
Photodynamical analysis of the triply eclipsing hierarchical triple system EPIC 249432662
T. Borkovits, S. Rappaport, T. Kaye +16
Using Campaign 15 data from the K2 mission, we have discovered a triply-eclipsing triple star system: EPIC 249432662. The inner eclipsing binary system has a period of 8.23 days, w…
Drifting Asteroid Fragments Around WD 1145+017
S. Rappaport, B. L. Gary, T. Kaye +4
We have obtained extensive photometric observations of the polluted white dwarf WD 1145+017 which has been reported to be transited by at least one, and perhaps several, large aste…
The Compact Triply Eclipsing Triple Star TIC 209409435 Discovered with TESS
T. Borkovits, S. A. Rappaport, T. G. Tan +9
We report the discovery in Sectors 3 and 4 of a compact triply eclipsing triple star system. TIC 209409435 is a previously unknown eclipsing binary with a period of 5.717 da…