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Deep long asymmetric occultation in EPIC 204376071

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Rappaport, S, Zhou, G, Vanderburg, A, Mann, A, Kristiansen, M H, Oláh, K, Jacobs, T L, Newton, E +10 more·2019·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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We have discovered a young M star of mass 0.16 M⊙ and radius 0.63 R⊙, likely in the Upper Sco Association, that exhibits only a single 80 per cent deep occultation of 1-d duration. The star has frequent flares and a low-amplitude rotational modulation, but is otherwise quiet over 160 d of cumulative observation during K2 campaigns C2 and C15. We discuss how such a deep eclipse is not possible by one star crossing another in any binary or higher order stellar system in which no mass transfer has occurred. The two possible explanations we are left with are (1) orbiting dust or small particles (e.g. a disc bound to a smaller orbiting body, or unbound dust that emanates from such a body); or (2) a transient accretion event of dusty material near the corotation radius of the star. In either case, the time between such occultation events must be longer than ∼80 d. We model a possible orbiting occulter both as a uniform elliptically shaped surface (e.g. an inclined circular disc) and as a ‘dust sheet’ with a gradient of optical depth behind its leading edge. The required masses in such dust features are then ≳3 × 1019 g and ≳1019 g, for the two cases, respectively.

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  • There are currently several prime candidates for occulting circumplanetary discs: V928 Tau, EPIC 204376071, and EPIC 220208795.

    “There are currently several prime candidates for occulting circumplanetary discs: V928 Tau (van Dam et al. 2019), EPIC 204376071 (Rappaport et al. 2019), EPIC 220208795 (van der Kamp et al. 2022).”

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Rappaport, S., Zhou, G., Vanderburg, A., Mann, A., Kristiansen, M. H., Oláh, K., Jacobs, T. L., Newton, E., Omohundro, M. R., LaCourse, D., Schwengeler, H. M., Terentev, I. A., Latham, D. W., Bieryla, A., Soares-Furtado, M., Bouma, L. G., Ireland, M. J., & Irwin, J.
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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • DTU Space (DK)
  • Konkoly Observatory (HU)
  • 12812 SE 69th Place Bellevue, WA 98006, USA
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • 7507 52nd Place NE Marysville, WA 98270, USA
  • Princeton University (US)
  • Australian National University (AU)
Corresponding author
  • Rappaport, S
  • Zhou, G
  • Vanderburg, A
Venue
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Published
2019-02-22
Volume
485
Issue
2
Pages
2681-2693
ISSN
  • 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2966
OpenAlex
W2916111805
Cited by
27
References
94
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2.14
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
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  • UNC Libraries
Funders
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (5-26555, NAS5-26555, NNX09AF08G)
  • National Science Foundation
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
Keywords
M dwarfs, young stellar objects, transient accretion, stellar flares, K2 light curves

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