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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Volume 189, Issue 1, Pages 134-141Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/189/1/134
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astronomical databases: miscellaneous; binaries: eclipsing; binaries: spectroscopic; eclipses; ephemerides; surveys; techniques: radial velocities
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Searches for planetary transits find many astrophysical false positives as a by-product. There are four main types analyzed in the literature: a grazing-incidence eclipsing binary (EB) star, an EB star with a small radius companion star, a blend of one or more stars with an unrelated EB star, and a physical triple star system. We present a list of 69 astrophysical false positives that had been identified as candidates of transiting planets of the on-going XO survey. This list may be useful in order to avoid redundant observation and characterization of these particular candidates that have been independently identified by other wide-field searches for transiting planets. The list may be useful for those modeling the yield of the XO survey and surveys similar to it. Subsequent observations of some of the listed stars may improve mass-radius relations, especially for low-mass stars. From the candidates exhibiting eclipses, we report three new spectroscopic double-line binaries and give mass function estimations for 15 single-line spectroscopic binaries.
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