Three low-mass companions around aged stars discovered by TESS

Abstract

We report the discovery of three transiting low-mass companions to aged stars: a brown dwarf (TOI-2336b) and two objects near the hydrogen burning mass limit (TOI-1608b and TOI-2521b). These three systems were first identified using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TOI-2336b has a radius of $1.05\pm 0.04R_J$, a mass of $69.9\pm 2.3M_J$ and an orbital period of 7.71 days. TOI-1608b has a radius of $1.21\pm 0.06R_J$, a mass of $90.7\pm 3.7M_J$ and an orbital period of 2.47 days. TOI-2521b has a radius of $1.01\pm 0.04R_J$, a mass of $77.5\pm 3.3M_J$ and an orbital period of 5.56 days. We found all these low-mass companions are inflated. We fitted a relation between radius, mass and incident flux using the sample of known transiting brown dwarfs and low-mass M dwarfs. We found a positive correlation between the flux and the radius for brown dwarfs and for low-mass stars that is weaker than the correlation observed for giant planets. We also found that TOI-1608 and TOI-2521 are very likely to be spin-orbit synchronized, leading to the unusually rapid rotation of the primary stars considering their evolutionary stages. Our estimates indicate that both systems have much shorter spin-orbit synchronization timescales compared to their ages. These systems provide valuable insights into the evolution of stellar systems with brown dwarf and low-mass stellar companions influenced by tidal effects.

arXiv comment23 pages, 15 figures; Published in MNRAS

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