TIC 156836267

Eclipsing binaryNew candidate

Notes

Found automatically by hunt.py in TESS sector 6 (flagged in 1 sector(s)). Detection score 986.7. Not in VSX, ASAS-SN or ZTF variable catalogues at the time of the search; not in Gaia DR3's variable lists. Unchecked by hand yet: verify the period, nearby stars and a wider catalogue search.

Type	Eclipsing binary
Status	New candidate
Period (days)	1.8909831
Period source	eclipse fit to TESS sectors [6, 7, 33, 34, 61, 88, 98]
Eclipse / dip depth	13.9%
Amplitude	11.4%
RA (deg)	98.628
Dec (deg)	-44.7672
TESS mag	11.94
TIC ID	156836267
SIMBAD name	not in SIMBAD
Nearest known variable	Gaia DR3 5556524676897010816 (VAR, P = 0.014664 d), 140" away
Data used	TESS sector 6 (QLP)
Found by	hunt.py (automatic)
Date	2026-10-02
Look it up	SIMBAD · VSX · ESASky · ExoFOP

✦ Artist's impression

AI-painted · made locally

What this picture shows

Artist's impression of an UNCONFIRMED candidate, based on its measured data. Two stars of about 5,000 K and 5,300 K (0.9 and 1.0 times the Sun's radius, ~0.9 and ~0.9 solar masses) orbit each other every 45.4 hours, 5.4 million km apart (the Sun-Mercury distance is 58 million km). We see the orbit at 81 degrees (90 = exactly edge-on), close enough to edge-on that they eclipse each other. Sizes, separation, tilt and colours come from fitting the TESS eclipses (see the model-fit plot) plus Gaia's temperature; masses assume normal main-sequence stars. The painted look, surface detail and background were added by a locally run image AI; the stars' sizes, colours and spacing follow the measured data.

How it was made

Painted by an image AI (DreamShaper XL, a Stable Diffusion XL model) running locally on a home PC, over a 3D layout built from the measured data. No cloud services.

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