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BEBOP II: sensitivity to sub-Saturn circumbinary planets using radial-velocities

Hellier; Maxted

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BEBOP is a radial-velocity survey that monitors a sample of single-lined eclipsing binaries, in search of circumbinary planets by using high-resolution spectrographs. Here, we describe and test the methods we use to identify planetary signals within the BEBOP data and establish how we quantify our sensitivity to circumbinary planets by producing detection limits. This process is made easier and more robust by using a diffusive nested sampler. In the process of testing our methods, we notice that contrary to popular wisdom, assuming circular orbits in calculating detection limits for a radial-velocity survey provides overoptimistic detection limits by up to 40 per cent in semi-amplitude with implications for all radial-velocity surveys. We perform example analyses using three BEBOP targets from our Southern HARPS survey. We demonstrate for the first time a repeated ability to reach a residual root mean squared scatter of 3ms-1 (after removing the binary signal), and find that we are sensitive to circumbinary planets with masses down to that of Neptune and Saturn, for orbital periods up to 1000d?.

Acceptance Date Jan 11, 2022
Publication Date Jan 25, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 3571 - 3583
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac113
Keywords techniques: radial velocities; planets and satellites: detection; binaries: eclipsing; stars: low-mass
Publisher URL https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/511/3/3571/6515253?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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