Characterizing the cool KOIs. VII. Refined physical properties of the transiting brown dwarf LHS 6343 C
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2015-02-20
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Johnson, John Asher
Villar, Ashley
Vassallo, Corinne
Baranec, Christoph
Riddle, Reed
Isaacson, Howard
Montet, Benjamin T.
Muirhead, Philip S.
Law, Nicholas M.
Marcy, Geoffrey W.
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Benjamin T. Montet, John Asher Johnson, Philip S. Muirhead, Ashley Villar, Corinne Vassallo, Christoph Baranec, Nicholas M. Law, Reed Riddle, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson. 2015. "Characterizing the cool KOIs. VII. Refined physical properties of the transiting brown dwarf LHS 6343 C." Astrophysical Journal, v. 800, Issue 2, pp. 1-13.
Abstract
We present an updated analysis of LHS 6343, a triple system in the Kepler field which consists of a brown dwarf transiting one member of a widely separated M+M binary system. By analyzing the full Kepler data set and 34 Keck/HIgh Resolution Echelle Spectrometer radial velocity observations, we measure both the observed transit depth and Doppler semiamplitude to 0.5% precision. With Robo-AO and Palomar/PHARO adaptive optics imaging as well as TripleSpec spectroscopy, we measure a model-dependent mass for LHS 6343 C of 62.1 ± 1.2 M Jup and a radius of 0.783 ± 0.011 R Jup. We detect the secondary eclipse in the Kepler data at 3.5σ, measuring ecos ω = 0.0228 ± 0.0008. We also derive a method to measure the mass and radius of a star and transiting companion directly, without any direct reliance on stellar models. The mass and radius of both objects depend only on the orbital period, stellar density, reduced semimajor axis, Doppler semiamplitude, eccentricity, and inclination, as well as the knowledge that the primary star falls on the main sequence. With this method, we calculate a mass and radius for LHS 6343 C to a precision of 3% and 2%, respectively.
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