A Study of Nine Triply Eclipsing Triples

Abstract

In this work we report the independent discovery and analysis of nine new compact triply eclipsing triple star systems found with the TESS mission: TICs 47151245, 81525800, 99013269, 229785001, 276162169, 280883908, 294803663, 332521671, and 356324779. Each of these nine systems exhibits distinct third-body eclipses where the third (`tertiary') star occults the inner eclipsing binary (EB), or vice versa. We utilize a photodynamical analysis of the TESS photometry, archival photometric data, TESS eclipse timing variations of the EBs, available archival spectral energy distribution curves (SED), and, in some cases, newly acquired radial velocity observations, to solve for the parameters of all three stars, as well as most of the orbital elements. From these analyses we find that the outer orbits of all nine systems are viewed nearly edge on (i.e., within $\lesssim 4^{\circ }$), and 6 of the systems are coplanar to within $5^{\circ }$; the others have mutual inclination angles of $20^{\circ }$, $41^{\circ }$, and possibly $179^{\circ }$ (i.e., a retrograde outer orbit). The outer orbital periods range from 47.8 days to 604 days, with eccentricities spanning 0.004 to 0.61. The masses of all 18 EB stars are in the range of 0.9-2.6 M${}_{\odot }$ and are mostly situated near the main sequence. By contrast, the masses and radii of the tertiary stars range from 1.4-2.8 M${}_{\odot }$ and 1.5-13 R${}_{\odot }$, respectively. We make use of the system parameters from these 9 systems, plus those from a comparable number of compact triply eclipsing triples published previously, to gain some statistical insight into their properties.

34 pages, 17 figures, 24 tables, accepted for publication to MNRAS

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