The EBLM project -- VIII. First results for M-dwarf mass, radius and effective temperature measurements using CHEOPS light curves
Creators: name: Swayne, M. I.
name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Triaud, A. H. M. J.
name: Sousa, S. G.
name: Broeg, C.
name: Florén, H. -G.
name: Guterman, P.
name: Simon, A. E.
name: Boisse, I.
name: Bonfanti, A.
name: Martin, D.
name: Santerne, A.
name: Salmon, S.
name: Standing, M. R.
name: Van Grootel, V.
name: Wilson, T. G.
name: Alibert, Y.
name: Alonso, R.
name: Escudé, G. Anglada
name: Asquier, J.
name: Bárczy, T.
name: Barrado, D.
name: Barros, S. C. C.
name: Battley, M.
name: Baumjohann, W.
name: Beck, M.
name: Beck, T.
name: Bekkelien, A.
name: Benz, W.
name: Billot, N.
name: Bonfils, X.
name: Brandeker, A.
name: Busch, M. -D.
name: Cabrera, J.
name: Charnoz, S.
name: Cameron, A. Collier
name: Csizmadia, Sz.
name: Davies, M. B.
name: Deleuil, M.
name: Deline, A.
name: Delrez, L.
name: Demangeon, O. D. S.
name: Demory, B. -O.
name: Dransfield, G.
name: Ehrenreich, D.
name: Erikson, A.
name: Fortier, A.
name: Fossati, L.
name: Fridlund, M.
name: Futyan, D.
name: Gandolfi, D.
name: Gillon, M.
name: Guedel, M.
name: Hébrard, G.
name: Heidari, N.
name: Hellier, C.
name: Heng, K.
name: Hobson, M.
name: Hoyer, S.
name: Isaak, K. G.
name: Kiss, L.
name: Hodžić, V. Kunovac
name: Lalitha, S.
name: Laskar, J.
name: Etangs, A. Lecavelier des
name: Lendl, M.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Magrin, D.
name: Marafatto, L.
name: McCormac, J.
name: Miller, N.
name: Nascimbeni, V.
name: Olofsson, G.
name: Ottensamer, R.
name: Pagano, I.
name: Pallé, E.
name: Peter, G.
name: Piotto, G.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Ragazzoni, R.
name: Rando, N.
name: Rauer, H.
name: Ribas, I.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Scandariato, G.
name: Ségransan, D.
name: Smith, A. M. S.
name: Steinberger, M.
name: Steller, M.
name: Szabó, Gy. M.
name: Thomas, N.
name: Udry, S.
name: Walter, I.
name: Walton, N. A.
name: Willett, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accuracy of theoretical mass, radius and effective temperature values for M-dwarf stars is an active topic of debate. Differences between observed and theoretical values have raised the possibility that current theoretical stellar structure and evolution models are inaccurate towards the low-mass end of the main sequence. To explore this issue we use the CHEOPS satellite to obtain high-precision light curves of eclipsing binaries with low mass stellar companions. We use these light curves combined with the spectroscopic orbit for the solar-type companion to measure the mass, radius and effective temperature of the M-dwarf star. Here we present the analysis of three eclipsing binaries. We use the pycheops data analysis software to fit the observed transit and eclipse events of each system. Two of our systems were also observed by the TESS satellite -- we similarly analyse these light curves for comparison. We find consistent results between CHEOPS and TESS, presenting three stellar radii and two stellar effective temperature values of low-mass stellar objects. These initial results from our on-going observing programme with CHEOPS show that we can expect to have ~24 new mass, radius and effective temperature measurements for very low mass stars within the next few years.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS