SOAR TESS Survey III: Mapping the Stellar Companion Deficit around TESS Planet Candidates

arXiv:2608.26250 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Comments: 48 pages, 22 figures, and 11 tables. Submitted to AJ

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

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Sources

• Determining the Host Stars of Planets in Binary Star Systems with Asterodensity Profiling: Investigating the Canonical Radius Gap
• Speckle Interferometry at SOAR in 2024 and 2025
• Long-term Spectroscopic Survey of the Hyades Cluster: The Binary Population

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