Planet Hunters TESS IV: A massive, compact hierarchical triple star system TIC 470710327

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العنوان: Planet Hunters TESS IV: A massive, compact hierarchical triple star system TIC 470710327
المؤلفون: Eisner, Nora L., Johnston, Cole, Toonen, Silvia, Frost, Abigail J., Janssens, Soetkin, Lintott, Chris J., Aigrain, Suzanne, Sana, Hugues, Abdul-Masih, Michael, Arellano-Córdova, Karla Z., Beck, Paul G., Bordier, Emma, Canon, Emily, Escorza, Ana, Fabry, Mattias, Hermansson, Lars, Howell, Steve, Miller, Grant, Sheyte, Shreeya, Alhassan, Safaa, Baeten, Elisabeth M. L., Barnet, Frank, Bean, Stewart. J., Bernau, Mikael, Bundy, David M., Di Fraia, Marco Z., Emralino, Francis M., Goodwin, Brian L., Hermes, Pete, Hoffman, Tony, Huten, Marc, Janíček, Roman, Lee, Sam, Mazzucato, Michele T., Rogers, David J., Rout, Michael P., Sejpka, Johann, Tanner, Christopher, Terentev, Ivan A., Urvoy, David
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
الوصف: We report the discovery and analysis of a massive, compact, hierarchical triple system (TIC 470710327) initially identified by citizen scientists in data obtained by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Spectroscopic follow-up observations obtained with the HERMES spectrograph, combined with eclipse timing variations (ETVs), confirm that the system is comprised of three OB stars, with a compact 1.10 d eclipsing binary and a non-eclipsing tertiary on a 52.04 d orbit. Dynamical modelling of the system (from radial velocity and ETVs) reveal a rare configuration wherein the tertiary star (O9.5-B0.5V; 14-17 M$_{\odot}$) is more massive than the combined mass of the inner binary (10.9-13.2 M$_{\odot}$). Given the high mass of the tertiary, we predict that this system will undergo multiple phases of mass transfer in the future, and likely end up as a double neutron star gravitational wave progenitor or an exotic Thorne-Zytkow object. Further observational characterisation of this system promises constraints on both formation scenarios of massive stars as well as their exotic evolutionary end-products.
Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS (11 pages, 8 figures)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3619
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06964
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2202.06964
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv