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Tic 168789840: A Sextuply Eclipsing Sextuple Star System, B. P. Powell, V. B. Kostov, S. A. Rappaport, T. Borkovits, P. Zasche, A. Tokovinin, E. Kruse, D. W. Latham, B. T. Montet, Eric L.N. Jensen, R. Jayaraman, K. A. Collins, M. Mašek, C. Hellier, P. Evans, T.-G. Tan, J. E. Schlieder, G. Torres, A. P. Smale, A. H. Friedman, T. Barclay, R. Gagliano, E. V. Quintana, T. L. Jacobs, E. A. Gilbert, M. H. Kristiansen, K. D. Colón, D. M. Lacourse, G. Olmschenk, M. Omohundro, J. D. Schnittman, H. M. Schwengeler, R. K. Barry, I. A. Terentev, P. Boyd, A. R. Schmitt, S. M. Quinn, A. Vanderburg, E. Palle, J. Armstrong, G. R. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, S. Seager, J. N. Winn, J. M. Jenkins, D. A. Caldwell, B. Wohler, B. Shiao, C. J. Burke, T. Daylan, J. Villaseñor

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We report the discovery of a sextuply eclipsing sextuple star system from TESS data, TIC 168789840, also known as TYC 7037-89-1, the first known sextuple system consisting of three eclipsing binaries. The target was observed in Sectors 4 and 5 during Cycle 1, with lightcurves extracted from TESS Full Frame Image data. It was also previously observed by the WASP survey and ASAS-SN. The system consists of three gravitationally bound eclipsing binaries in a hierarchical structure of an inner quadruple system with an outer binary subsystem. Follow-up observations from several different observatories were conducted as a means of determining additional …