{"_facts":{"companion":"","deep":"","dossier":"","gaia_eb":"","impression":"","period":"","planet":"","rare":"Extra dips outside the eclipses; Eccentric eclipsing binary","toi":""},"amplitude":"1.9%","bp_rp":"1.39","cover":"TIC417734864_s0014.png","data_used":"TESS sector 14 (QLP)","date":"2026-10-09","dec":"67.8509","depth":"72.2%","distance_pc":"1,277 (~4,164 light years)","found_by":"hunt.py (automatic)","gaia_dr3":"2249171229278680704","gaia_gmag":"12.95","gaia_rv":"speed changes by 22 km/s - likely an orbiting pair","history":[{"date":"2026-10-09","text":"Found by the automatic search in TESS sector 14"},{"date":"2026-10-12","text":"Rare-find check: Extra dips outside the eclipses; Eccentric eclipsing binary"}],"hr":[1.388,2.421],"last_update":"2026-10-12","nearest_variable":"PMAK V62 (EA, P = 11.447 d), 37\" away (same period!)","nearest_variable_id":"PMAK V62","notes":"Rare, already known: Eccentric eclipsing binary; Extra dips outside the eclipses (the catalogued variable PMAK V62 (EA, 37\" away) has the same period - its light leaks into TESS's big pixels; same period as the known variable PMAK V62).\n\nWARNING: same period as the known variable PMAK V62 37\" away; the signal is probably its light leaking in.\nFound automatically by hunt.py in TESS sector 14 (flagged in 13 sector(s)). Detection score 731.1.\nNot in VSX, ASAS-SN or ZTF variable catalogues at the time of the search; not in Gaia DR3's variable lists.\nUnchecked by hand yet: verify the period, nearby stars and a wider catalogue search.\n\nUpdates:\n2026-10-12  Rare-find check: Extra dips outside the eclipses; Eccentric eclipsing binary\n2026-10-09  Found by the automatic search in TESS sector 14","period_days":"22.8935","period_source":"hunt.py on TESS QLP sector 14","ra":"299.515","rare":"Extra dips outside the eclipses; Eccentric eclipsing binary","rare_checked":"2026-10-12 02:53","rare_clear":["Microlensing (rogue planet?)","Exocomet-shaped dip","Eclipse timing (third body?)","Eclipses changing depth","Pulsating star in an eclipsing binary","Second eclipsing pair","Heartbeat star","Self-lensing binary","Type of star"],"rare_device":"GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (CUDA, CuPy)","rare_flags":[{"id":"eccentric_eb","level":"notable","name":"Eccentric eclipsing binary","text":"The second eclipse comes at phase 0.606 instead of 0.5: the orbit is stretched (eccentricity at least 0.167). Eccentric binaries show how tides shape orbits, and their slowly turning orbits test General Relativity."},{"id":"circumbinary","level":"hint","name":"Extra dips outside the eclipses","text":"1 dip(s) that don't belong to the eclipses (at BTJD 2896.38): a planet orbiting both stars (circumbinary, like Kepler-16b) makes dips at irregular times, or a third star."}],"rare_known":true,"rare_known_why":["the catalogued variable PMAK V62 (EA, 37\" away) has the same period - its light leaks into TESS's big pixels","same period as the known variable PMAK V62"],"rare_level":"hint","rare_n":11,"ruwe":"1.12 - fits a single star","score":"731.1","sector":14,"simbad_name":"not in SIMBAD","status":"Rare, already known","tic":"417734864","title":"TIC 417734864","tmag":"12.24","type":"Eclipsing binary"}