Kavli Affiliate: George Ricker
| First 5 Authors: Étienne Artigau, Guillaume Hébrard, Charles Cadieux, Thomas Vandal, Neil J. Cook
| Summary:
We present the discovery of an $18.5pm0.5$M$_{rm Jup}$ brown dwarf (BD)
companion to the M0V star TOI-1278. The system was first identified through a
percent-deep transit in TESS photometry; further analysis showed it to be a
grazing transit of a Jupiter-sized object. Radial velocity (RV) follow-up with
the SPIRou near-infrared high-resolution velocimeter and spectropolarimeter in
the framework of the 300-night SPIRou Legacy Survey (SLS) carried out at the
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) led to the detection of a Keplerian RV
signal with a semi-amplitude of $2306pm10$ m/s in phase with the 14.5-day
transit period, having a slight but non-zero eccentricity. The
intermediate-mass ratio ($M_star/M_{rm{comp}} sim31$) is unique for having
such a short separation ($0.095pm0.001$ AU) among known M-dwarf systems.
Interestingly, M dwarf-brown dwarf systems with similar mass ratios exist with
separations of tens to thousands of AUs.
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