Link between light-curve variability from TESS with binary-star parameters from The Joker and APOGEE

If radial-velocity surveys have sparse time coverage, many different binary-star orbital solutions can explain that same data. The goal of this project was to establish a connection between variability in the more information dense light-curve data and orbital solutions found from the sparse radial-velocity data as well as cases where the light curves can be used to break degeneracies within orbital-solution samplings. We compare multiples of peak periods from Lomb-Scargle and box-least-squares periodograms run on NASA TESS data with multiples of periods from posterior samplings of binary-system parameters from The Joker, a custom Monte Carlo sampler designed for the gravitational two-body problem, run on SDSS-IV APOGEE data. Unfortunately, there are few cases where there is an obvious relationship between the samplings and the light-curve variations and where degeneracies are broken.