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The TESS mission will survey ∼85 per cent of the sky, giving us the opportunity of extracting high-precision light curves of millions of stars, including stellar cluster members. In this ...work, we present our project ‘A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters’ (PATHOS), aimed at searching and characterize candidate exoplanets and variable stars in stellar clusters using our innovative method for the extraction of high-precision light curves of stars located in crowded environments. Our technique of light-curve extraction involves the use of empirical point spread functions (PSFs), an input catalogue and neighbour-subtraction. The PSF-based approach allows us to minimize the dilution effects in crowded environments and to extract high-precision photometry for stars in the faint regime (G > 13). For this pilot project, we extracted, corrected, and analysed the light curves of 16 641 stars located in a dense region centred on the globular cluster 47 Tuc. We were able to reach the TESS magnitude T ∼ 16.5 with a photometric precision of ${\sim} 1{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ on the 6.5-h time-scale; in the bright regime we were able to detect transits with depth of ∼34 parts per million. We searched for variables and candidate transiting exoplanets. Our pipeline detected one planetary candidate orbiting a main-sequence star in the Galactic field. We analysed the period–luminosity distribution for red-giant stars of 47 Tuc and the eclipsing binaries in the field. Light curves are uploaded on the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes under the project PATHOS.
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In this work, we present the analysis of 976 814 FGKM dwarf and subgiant stars in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope (TESS) full frame images (FFIs) of the Southern ecliptic ...hemisphere. We present a new pipeline, DIAmante, developed to extract optimized, multisector photometry from TESS FFIs and a classifier, based on the Random Forest technique, trained to discriminate plausible transiting planetary candidates from common false positives. A new statistical model was developed to provide the probability of correct identification of the source of variability. We restricted the planet search to the stars located in the least crowded regions of the sky and identified 396 transiting planetary candidates among which 252 are new detections. The candidates’ radius distribution ranges between 1 R⊕ and 2.6 RJ with median value of 1 RJ and the period distribution ranges between 0.25 and 105 d with median value of 3.8 d. The sample contains four long period candidates (P > 50 d), one of which is new, and 64 candidates with periods between 10 and 50 d (42 new ones). In the small planet radius domain (4R < R⊕), we found 39 candidates among which 15 are new detections. Additionally, we present 15 single transit events (14 new ones), a new candidate multiplanetary system, and a novel candidate around a known TOI. By using Gaia dynamical constraints, we found that 70 objects show evidence of binarity. We release a catalogue of the objects we analysed and the corresponding light curves and diagnostic figures through the MAST and ExoFOP portals.
Stellar-activity features such as spots can complicate the determination of planetary parameters through spectroscopic and photometric observations. The overlap of a transiting planet and a stellar ...spot, for instance, can produce anomalies in the transit light-curves that may lead to an inaccurate estimation of the transit duration, depth, and timing. These inaccuracies can for instance affect the precise derivation of the planet radius. We present the results of a quantitative study on the effects of stellar spots on high-precision transit light-curves. We show that spot anomalies can lead to an estimate of a planet radius that is 4% smaller than the real value. Likewise, the transit duration may be estimated about 4%, longer or shorter. Depending on the size and distribution of spots, anomalies can also produce transit-timing variations (TTVs) with significant amplitudes. For instance, TTVs with signal amplitudes of 200 s can be produced when the spot is completely dark and has the size of the largest Sun spot. Our study also indicates that the smallest size of a stellar spot that still has detectable effects on a high-precision transit light-curve is around 0.03 time the stellar radius for typical Kepler Telescope precision. We also show that the strategy of including more free parameters (such as transit depth and duration) in the fitting procedure to measure the transit time of each individual transit will not produce accurate results for active stars.
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The scope of the project ‘A PSF-based Approach to TESS High Quality data Of Stellar clusters’ (PATHOS) is the extraction and analysis of high-precision light curves of stars in stellar ...clusters and young associations for the identification of candidate exoplanets and variable stars. The cutting-edge tools used in this project allow us to measure the real flux of stars in dense fields, minimizing the effects due to contamination by neighbour sources. We extracted about 200 000 light curves of stars in 645 open clusters located in the Southern ecliptic hemisphere and observed by TESS during the first year of its mission. We searched for transiting signals and we found 33 objects of interest, 11 of which are strong candidate exoplanets. Because of the limited SNR, we did not find any Earth or super-Earth. We identified two Neptune-size planets orbiting stars with $R_{\star }\lt 1.5\, \mathrm{\it R}_{\odot }$, implying a frequency $f_{\star }=1.34 \pm 0.95\, {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$, consistent with the frequency around field stars. The seven Jupiter candidates around stars with $R_{\star }\lt \, 1.5\, \mathrm{\it R}_{\odot }$ imply a frequency $f_{\star }=0.19\pm 0.07\, {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$, which is smaller than in the field. A more complete estimate of the survey completeness and false positive rate is needed to confirm these results. Light curves used in this work will be made available to the astronomical community on the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescope under the project PATHOS.
The Rossiter-McLaughlin (hereafter RM) effect is a key tool for measuring the projected spin-orbit angle between stellar spin axes and orbits of transiting planets. However, the measured radial ...velocity (RV) anomalies produced by this effect are not intrinsic and depend on both instrumental resolution and data reduction routines. Using inappropriate formulas to model the RM effect introduces biases, at least in the projected velocity Vsini⋆ compared to the spectroscopic value. Currently, only the iodine cell technique has been modeled, which corresponds to observations done by, e.g., the HIRES spectrograph of the Keck telescope. In this paper, we provide a simple expression of the RM effect specially designed to model observations done by the Gaussian fit of a cross-correlation function (CCF) as in the routines performed by the HARPS team. We derived a new analytical formulation of the RV anomaly associated to the iodine cell technique. For both formulas, we modeled the subplanet mean velocity vp and dispersion βp accurately taking the rotational broadening on the subplanet profile into account. We compare our formulas adapted to the CCF technique with simulated data generated with the numerical software SOAP-T and find good agreement up to Vsini⋆ ≲ 20 km s-1. In contrast, the analytical models simulating the two different observation techniques can disagree by about 10σ in Vsini⋆ for large spin-orbit misalignments. It is thus important to apply the adapted model when fitting data.
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Summary
Background
The onset of a sprue‐like enteropathy in association with olmesartan therapy has been recently reported.
Aims
To perform a systematic review of the literature and describe three ...additional cases of olmesartan‐associated enteropathy.
Methods
Electronic and manual bibliographic searches were performed to identify original reports in which subjects who were undertaking olmesartan developed a sprue‐like enteropathy. Because of the scarcity of studies with adequate sample size, case series with less than 10 patients and case reports were also considered. Data extraction was performed independently by two reviewers.
Results
A total of 11 publications met our pre‐defined inclusion criteria, for an overall number of 54 patients (including our series). Almost all patients presented with diarrhoea and weight loss. Normocytic normochromic anaemia and hypoalbuminaemia were the commonest laboratory defects at presentation. Antibody testing for coeliac disease was always negative. Variable degrees of duodenal villous atrophy were present in 98% of patients, while increased intra‐epithelial lymphocytes were documented in only 65% of cases. After discontinuation of olmesartan, all reported patients achieved resolution of signs and symptoms.
Conclusions
Although the available evidence is limited, the olmesartan‐associated sprue‐like enteropathy may be considered as a distinct clinical entity, and should be included in the differential diagnosis when serological testing for coeliac disease is negative.
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Context. Since the discovery of the first transiting extrasolar planet, transit timing has been recognized as a powerful method to discover and characterize additional planets in these systems. ...However, the gravitational influence of additional planets is not the only expected source of transit timing variations. Aims. In this work, we derive the expected detection frequency of stellar companions of hot-jupiter transiting planets host-stars, detectable by means of transit timing analysis. Since roughly half of the stars in the solar neighborhood belong to binary or multiple stellar systems, the same fraction of binary systems may be expected to be present among transiting planet-host stars, unless planet formation is significantly influenced by the presence of a stellar companion. Transit searches are less affected by the selection biases against long-period binaries that plague radial velocity surveys. Methods. We considered the frequency and the period, mass ratio and eccentricity distributions of known binary systems in the solar neighborhood, and estimated the fraction of transiting planet-hosts expected to show detectable transit timing variations due to the light travel time effect in a binary stellar system, in function of the time since the discovery of the planet. Results. If the frequency of binaries among hot-jupiter planet host stars is the same as determined in the solar neighborhood, after 5 years since the discovery of a sample of transiting planets 1.0% ± 0.2% of them have a probability > 99% to present transit timing variations > 50 s induced by stellar binarity, and 2.8% ± 0.3% after 10 years, if the planetary and binary orbits are coplanar. Considering the case of random inclinations the probabilities are 0.6% ± 0.1% and 1.7% ± 0.2% after 5 and 10 years respectively. Our estimates can be considered conservative lower limits, since we have taken into account only binaries with periods P > 5 × 103 days (a $\ga$ 6 AU). Our simulations indicate that transit timing variations due to the light travel time effect will allow us to discover stellar companions up to maximum separations equal to a ~ 36 AU after 5 years since the discovery of the planet (a ~ 75 AU after 10 years). Conclusions. Comparing the results of the observations with the above predictions allows to understand if stellar companions at critical separations (< 100 AU) are favoring or hindering the formation of hot-jupiter planets. Comparing the results of transit timing detections with those obtained by other complementary methods results in a more complete determination of stellar multiplicity around transiting planet-host stars. Moreover, transit timing analysis allows us to probe stellar multiplicity at critical separations (< 100 AU) around stars located in different regions of the Galaxy, and not just in the solar neighborhood.
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The all-sky PLATO input catalogue Montalto, M.; Piotto, G.; Marrese, P. M. ...
Astronomy & astrophysics,
09/2021, Volume:
653
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Context.
The ESA PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars. Because of telemetry limitations, PLATO ...targets need to be pre-selected.
Aims.
In this paper, we present an all sky catalogue that will be fundamental to selecting the best PLATO fields and the most promising target stars, deriving their basic parameters, analysing the instrumental performances, and then planing and optimising follow-up observations. This catalogue also represents a valuable resource for the general definition of stellar samples optimised for the search of transiting planets.
Methods.
We used
Gaia
Data Release 2 astrometry and photometry and 3D maps of the local interstellar medium to isolate FGK (
V
≤ 13) and M (
V
≤ 16) dwarfs and subgiant stars.
Results.
We present the first public release of the all-sky PLATO input catalogue (asPIC1.1) containing a total of 2 675 539 stars including 2 378 177 FGK dwarfs and subgiants and 297 362 M dwarfs. The median distance in our sample is 428 pc for FGK stars and 146 pc for M dwarfs, respectively. We derived the reddening of our targets and developed an algorithm to estimate stellar fundamental parameters (
T
eff
, radius, mass) from astrometric and photometric measurements.
Conclusions.
We show that the overall (internal+external) uncertainties on the stellar parameter determined in the present study are ∼230 K (4%) for the effective temperatures, ∼0.1
R
⊙
(9%) for the stellar radii, and ∼0.1
M
⊙
(11%) for the stellar mass. We release a special target list containing all known planet hosts cross-matched with our catalogue.
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