A search for rotation periods in 1000 TESS objects of interest release_jtgtrfl4jzaqjn5kwevz2m7hvi

by Bruno L. Canto Martins, Roseane L. Gomes, Yuri S. Messias, Suzierly R. de Lira, Izan C. Leão, Leonardo A. Almeida, Márcio A. Teixeira, Maria L. das Chagas, Jenny P. Bravo, Asnakew Bewketu Belete, José R. De Medeiros

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The high quality light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) represent a unique laboratory for the study of stellar rotation, a fundamental observable driving stellar and planetary evolution, including planetary atmospheres and impacting on habitability conditions and the genesis of life around stars. As of April 14th 2020, this mission delivered public light curves for 1000 TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs), observed with 2 minute cadence during the first 20 months of the mission. Here, we present a search for rotation signatures in these TOIs, using Fast Fourier Transform, Lomb-Scargle, and wavelet techniques, accompanied by a rigorous visual inspection. This effort revealed 163 targets with rotation signatures, 131 of which present unambiguous rotation periods ranging from 0.321 and 13.219 days, whereas 32 of them present dubious rotation periodicities. One hundred and nine of these stars show flux fluctuations whose root-cause is not clearly identified. For 714 TOIs, the light curves show a noisy behavior, corresponding to typically low-amplitude signals. Our analysis has also revealed 10 TOI stars with pulsation periodicities ranging from 0.049 to 2.995 days and four eclipsing binaries. With upcoming TESS data releases, our periodicity analysis will be expanded to almost all TOI stars, thereby contributing in defining criteria for follow-up strategy itself, and the study of star-planet interactions, surface dynamic of host stars and habitability conditions in planets, among other aspects. In this context, a living catalog is maintained on the Filtergraph visualization portal at the URL https://filtergraph.com/tess_rotation_tois.
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