List of transiting circumsecondary disks explained

This is a list of transiting circumsecondary disks (including possible ring systems). A circumsecondary disk is a disk of gas and/or dust around a star, white dwarf or substellar object that is a secondary in a star system. In rare cases the system can be aligned in a way that makes it possible for the circumsecondary disk to transit in front of the primary. In some cases the observed dips can be so deep that researchers describe these dimming events as occultations.

The object J1407b was considered a circumsecondary disk in the past, but later turned out to be more likely a free-floating planetary-mass object with a disk. PDS 110 is a candidate with uncertain status, as later eclipses did not occur. VVV-WIT-07, ASASSN-V J192543.72+402619.0, ASASSN-21co, FY Scuti, OGLE-BLG182.1.162852, and ZTF J185259.31+124955.2 are candidates without much modelling of the disk.

List of transiting disks

!Name of the primary!Spectral type primary!Secondary object classification!Orbital separation (AU)!Orbital period (years)!Disk radius (AU)!Reference
Giant stars with possible mass transfer to the secondary in the past
TYC 2505-672-1M2IIIB-type hot subdwarf16.7–31.2 or 26.769.10.85–3.15 or 3.75
Epsilon AurigaeF0II–III?B5V-star27.1
VVV-WIT-08giant between K7 and M2object of unknown nature>11>0.25
Eta GeminorumM3.5 Ib-IIstar (about 2)7.88.2>0.75
Gaia17bppM0IIIstar>6.51.4
EE CepheiB5III (Be star)star5.60.13
OGLE LMC-ECL-11893B9III: (Be star)old low-mass object1.71.30.2
MWC 882A0 (accretor, post-Algol variable)B7 (donor, post-RGB)0.530.200.28 (around primary)
Young systems (secondary is star)
V773 Tauribinary: K3Ve (Li)binary star (two 1.5 stars)26.55
Secondary possibly substellar object or planet
ASASSN-21jsearly-type starsubstellar object (brown dwarf or smaller)~13,000~610,0001.055
Gaia21bcvK4.5V (young star)low-mass star, brown dwarf or planet<225<33750.5
ASASSN-V J060000.76–310027.83early K-dwarfobject of unknown nature~82~0.5
EPIC 204376071M5.3 (young star)about 3 object>0.220.012 (2.60)
V928 TauriM0.8 (young binary)substellar object with high mass (at least >50)<3.20.18–2.80.006 (1.39)
EPIC 220208795early K-dwarf>1.5 object1.20–1.44 (aphelion)0.65–0.800.005 (1.14)
KIC 10403228M0.88 or 1.44 object4500.0012 or 0.0017 (2.6 or 3.7)
SunG2VPlanet (Saturn, for comparison)1433.534NaN429.44751367805NaN5<---Saturn rings--->
HIP 41378late F-type starHIP 41378 f (12 planet, with radius of 3.7 if it has rings)1.371.490.0004 (9.6)
K2-33M dwarf (young star)K2-33b (planet)0.04090.015 (5.424 days)0.0002 (5)

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