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A Disintegrating Rocky Planet with Prominent Comet-like Tails Around a Bright Star
Marc Hon, Saul Rappaport, Avi Shporer +21
We report the discovery of BD+054868Ab, a transiting exoplanet orbiting a bright () K-dwarf (TIC 466376085) with a period of 1.27 days. Observations from NASA's Tr…
The black hole low mass X-ray binary V404 Cygni is part of a wide hierarchical triple, and formed without a kick
Kevin B. Burdge, Kareem El-Badry, Erin Kara +7
Evidence suggests that when compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars form, they may receive a ``natal kick,'' where the stellar remnant gains momentum. Observational e…
Transient Corotating Clumps Around Adolescent Low-Mass Stars From Four Years of TESS
Luke G. Bouma, Rahul Jayaraman, Saul Rappaport +5
Complex periodic variables (CPVs) are stars that exhibit highly structured and periodic optical light curves. Previous studies have indicated that these stars are typically disk-fr…
A 9-Hr CV With One Outburst in 4 Years of Kepler Data
Zhifei Yu, John Thorstensen, Saul Rappaport +11
During a visual search through the Kepler main-field lightcurves, we have discovered a cataclysmic variable (CV) that experienced only a single 4-day long outburst over four years,…
Planetesimals Around Stars with TESS (PAST): I. Transient Dimming of a Binary Solar Analog at the End of the Planet Accretion Era
E. Gaidos, T. Jacobs, D. LaCourse +16
We report detection of quasi-periodic (1.5 day) dimming of HD 240779, the solar-mass primary in a 5" visual binary (also TIC 284730577), by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellit…
Complex Rotational Modulation of Rapidly Rotating M-Stars Observed with TESS
Z. Zhan, M. N. Günther, S. Rappaport +23
We have searched for short periodicities in the light curves of stars with cooler than 4000 K made from 2-minute cadence data obtained in TESS sectors 1 and 2. Herein…