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The EBLM project – IX. Five fully convective M-dwarfs, precisely measured with CHEOPS and TESS light curves

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 519, pp. 3546–3563

Abstract

ABSTRACT Eclipsing binaries are important benchmark objects to test and calibrate stellar structure and evolution models. This is especially true for binaries with a fully convective M-dwarf component for which direct measurements of these stars’ masses and radii are difficult using other techniques. Within the potential of M-dwarfs to be exoplanet host stars, the accuracy of theoretical predictions of their radius and effective temperature as a function of their mass is an active topic of discussion. Not only the parameters of transiting exoplanets but also the success of future atmospheric characterization relies on accurate theoretical predictions. We present the analysis of five eclipsing binaries with low-mass stellar companions out of a subsample of 23, for which we obtained ultra-high-precision light curves using the CHEOPS satellite. The observation of their primary and secondary eclipses are combined with spectroscopic measurements to precisely model the primary parameters and derive the M-dwarfs mass, radius, surface gravity, and effective temperature estimates using the PYCHEOPS data analysis software. Combining these results to the same set of parameters derived from TESS light curves, we find very good agreement (better than 1 per cent for radius and better than 0.2 per cent for surface gravity). We also analyse the importance of precise orbits from radial velocity measurements and find them to be crucial to derive M-dwarf radii in a regime below 5 per cent accuracy. These results add five valuable data points to the mass–radius diagram of fully convective M-dwarfs.

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  1. Daniel Sebastian corresponding

    University of Birmingham

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    School of Physics, and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmimgham, B15 2TT, UK

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    Astrophysics Group, Keele University , Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK

    Astrophysics Group, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom

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    Astrophysics Group, Keele University , Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK

    Astrophysics Group, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom

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    School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmimgham B15 2TT, UK

    School of Physics, and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmimgham, B15 2TT, UK

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    Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco, Universidade do Porto, CAUP , Rua das Estrelas, P-4150-762 Porto, Portugal

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    Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University , AlbaNova University Center, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

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    Observatoire Astronomique de l’Université de Genève , Chemin Pegasi 51, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland

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    Observatoire Astronomique de l’Université de Genève , Chemin Pegasi 51, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland

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    Aix Marseille University, CNRS, CNES, LAM , 38 rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, F-13388 Marseille, France

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    Department of Physics, University of Warwick , Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

    Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

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    Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University , 4055 McPherson Laboratory, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

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    Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory , SE-43992 Onsala, Sweden

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    School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmimgham B15 2TT, UK

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