A Previously Underexplored Regime in TESS: Minute-Scale Eclipses Reveal Ten White Dwarf-Cool M-Dwarf Binaries

arXiv:2606.03850 · astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-06-02 · Read on arXiv

Tristan Cavalier, Julien de Wit, Mathilde Timmermans, Benjamin V. Rackham, Mariangel Albornoz, Artem Y. Burdanov, Khalid Barkaoui, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Adam J. Burgasser, Brice-Olivier Demory, Elsa Ducrot, Michael Gillon, Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew, Matthew J. Hooton, Peter P. Pedersen, Didier Queloz, Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández

astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-06-02

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Spectral Energy Distribution — 5× in this paper
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — 3× in this paper
• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Target Pixel File — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 1× in this paper

Sources

• The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: 100 Hubbles for the 2020s
• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• A global view of post-interaction white dwarf-main sequence binaries

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