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Evidence for a giant companion orbiting Tabby's star

Cristina Madurga-Favieres, et al., 2026.

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arXiv:2607.20643 (July 2026). Models the symmetric 1.1 per cent dip in TESS Sector 15 (September 2019) as a planetary transit and combines it with archival and new radial velocities: a 2.3-sigma companion of about 9 Jupiter masses and 1.7 Jupiter radii with a period of at least about 1030 days, in several allowed period windows. Independently recovered in this department's TESS search.

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Cristina Madurga-Favieres, & et al. (2026). Evidence for a giant companion orbiting Tabby's star. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20643
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