TOI-5375 B: A Very low mass star at the hydrogen-burning limit orbiting an early M-type star

Mika Lambert, Chad F. Bender, Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Cañas, Andrew Monson, Gudmundur Stefánsson, William D. Cochran, Mark E. Everett, Arvind F. Gupta, Fred Hearty, Henry A. Kobulnicky, Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, Andrea S. J. Lin, Suvrath Mahadevan, Joe P. Ninan, Brock A. Parker, Paul Robertson, Christian Schwab, Ryan C. Terrien

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Abstract

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission detected a companion orbiting TIC 71268730, categorized it as a planet candidate, and designated the system TOI-5375. Our follow-up analysis using radial-velocity data from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder, photometric data from Red Buttes Observatory, and speckle imaging with NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet Stellar Speckle Imager determined that the companion is a very low mass star near the hydrogen-burning mass limit with a mass of 0.080 ± 0.002M (83.81 ± 2.10MJ ), a radius of 0.1114-0.0050+0.0048R (1.08410.04870.0467RJ ), and brightness temperature of 2600 ± 70 K. This object orbits with a period of 1.721553 ± 0.000001 days around an early M dwarf star (0.62 ± 0.016M). TESS photometry shows regular variations in the host star's TESS light curve, which we interpreted as an activity-induced variation of ∼2%, and used this variability to measure the host star's stellar rotation period of 1.9716-0.0083+0.0080 days. The TOI-5375 system provides tight constraints on stellar models of low-mass stars at the hydrogen-burning limit and adds to the population in this important region.

Original languageEnglish
Article number218
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalAstronomical Journal
Volume165
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2023

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