New candidate exoplanets around the late B stars in the direction of Galactic anticenter

**Authors:** Teimuraz Kvernadze, Ketevan Chargeishvili, Otar Kvaratskhelia, Giorgi Kurkhuli **Affiliations:**Georgian National Astrophysical observatory, Abastumani 0301, Georgia New candidate exoplanets were detected around the hot B giant stars TIC 74487535 and TIC 80152583, while processing observational data from Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The stars are located in the direction of the Galaxy anticenter in the Taurus constellation at the distances of 718 pc and 1,377 pc from Earth. They are B8-B9 III spectral class stars and have brightness of V = 11.85 mag and 11.32 mag accordingly. We analyzed the TESS QLP time series from sectors 43, 44, 45 with an interactive light curve processing tool specially developed by T.Kvernadze under the Python package. The final light curves were used for transit modeling with AstroImageJ software package. The exoplanet transits have the following parameters: TIC 74487535 - duration t14 = 0.200462 days, depth = 5.92 ppt, mid-transit time Tc BJD = 2,459,476.133 and the orbital period P = 3.010 days; TIC 80152583 - duration t14 = 0.166354 days, depth = 3.25 ppt, mid-transit time Tc BJD = 2,459,474.208 and the orbital period P = 1.354 days. The fitted models show that the exoplanets are the close-in hot Jupiters with Rp = 2.18 Rjup, a/R* = 4.63, i = 83.9 deg, u1 = 0.1, u2 = 0.0 and Rp = 1.9 Rjup, a/R* = 2.50, i = 78.2 deg, u1 = 0.4, u2 = 0.0, respectively.