Kavli Affiliate: Edward H. Morgan
| First 5 Authors: Theron W. Carmichael, Jonathan M. Irwin, Felipe Murgas, Enric Pallé, Keivan G. Stassun
| Summary:
We report the discovery of TOI-2119b, a transiting brown dwarf (BD) that
orbits and is completely eclipsed by an active M-dwarf star. Using light curve
data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission and follow-up
high-resolution Doppler spectroscopic observations, we find the BD has a radius
of $R_b = 1.08 pm 0.03{rm R_J}$, a mass of $M_b = 64.4 pm 2.3{rm M_J}$, an
orbital period of $P = 7.200865 pm 0.00002$ days, and an eccentricity of
$e=0.337pm 0.002$. The host star has a mass of $M_star = 0.53 pm 0.02{rm
M_odot}$, a radius of $R_star= 0.50 pm 0.01{rm R_odot}$, an effective
temperature of $T_{rm eff} = 3621 pm 48$K, and a metallicity of $rm
[Fe/H]=+0.06pm 0.08$. TOI-2119b joins an emerging population of transiting BDs
around M-dwarf host stars, with TOI-2119 being the ninth such system. These
M-dwarf–brown dwarf systems typically occupy mass ratios near $q = M_b/M_star
approx 0.1-0.2$, which separates them from the typical mass ratios for systems
with transiting substellar objects and giant exoplanets that orbit more massive
stars. The nature of the secondary eclipse of the BD by the star enables us to
estimate the effective temperature of the substellar object to be $2030pm
84$K, which is consistent with predictions by substellar evolutionary models.
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