KOI-126: A Triply-Eclipsing Hierarchical Triple with Two Low-Mass Stars

Details KOI-126: A Triply-Eclipsing Hierarchical Triple with Two Low-Mass Stars KOI-126: A Triply-Eclipsing Hierarchical Triple with Two Low-Mass Stars

2011-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/1102.0562v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

To be published in Science on 2/4/2011. Announced at Jan. 2011 AAS meeting and made available on Science Express. Includes Sup

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.1201274

The Kepler spacecraft has been monitoring the light from 150,000 stars in its primary quest to detect transiting exoplanets. Here we report on the detection of an eclipsing stellar hierarchical triple, identified in the Kepler photometry. KOI-126 (A,(B, C)), is composed of a low-mass binary (masses M_B = 0.2413+/-0.0030 M_Sun, M_C = 0.2127+/-0.0026 M_Sun; radii R_B = 0.2543+/-0.0014 R_Sun, R_C = 0.2318+/-0.0013 R_Sun; orbital period P_1 = 1.76713+/-0.00019 days) on an eccentric orbit about a third star (mass M_A = 1.347+/-0.032 M_Sun; radius R_A = 2.0254+/-0.0098 R_Sun; period of orbit around the low-mass binary P_2 = 33.9214+/-0.0013 days; eccentricity of that orbit e_2 = 0.3043+/-0.0024). The low-mass pair probe the poorly sampled fully-convective stellar domain offering a crucial benchmark for theoretical stellar models.

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