370 New Eclipsing Binary Candidates from TESS Sectors 1–26
Abstract

We present 370 candidate eclipsing binaries (EBs), identified from ∼510,000 short cadence TESS light curves. Our statistical criteria identify 5105 light curves with features consistent with eclipses (∼1% of the initial sample). After visual confirmation of the light curves, we have a final sample of 2288 EB candidates. Among these, we find 370 sources that were not included in the catalog recently published by Prša et al. We publish our full sample of 370 new EB candidates, and statistical features used for their identification, reported per observation sector.

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10367625
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Research Notes of the AAS
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6
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5
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Article No. 96
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2515-5172
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DOI PREFIX: 10.3847
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