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膨胀的行星和它们的低质量同伴

Inflated planets and their low-mass companions

Rosemary A. Mardling

摘要:

在发现HD 209458b没有伴星能够产生大于5米/秒的恒星反射速度后,人们提出了各种各样的机制来解释它膨胀的大小。如果有这样一个伴星,它迫使膨胀行星的偏心率,从而潮汐加热它的假设可能已经很容易被接受。在这里,我们总结了作者的一篇论文,该论文表明,质量低至地球质量的一小部分的伴星能够在至少系统的年龄内维持观测行星的非零偏心率。虽然这些伴星产生的恒星反射速度是每秒几分之一米,因此低于恒星抖动极限,但它们与最近的理论工作相一致,该理论工作表明行星迁移过程通常会产生短周期巨星的低质量伴星。

英文摘要:

Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the inflated size of HD 209458b after it became clear that it has no companions capable of producing a stellar reflex velocity greater than around 5 m/s. Had there been such a companion, the hypothesis that it forces the eccentricity of the inflated planet thereby tidally heating it may have been readily accepted. Here we summarize a paper by the author which shows that companion planets with masses as low as a fraction of an Earth mass are capable of sustaining a non-zero eccentricity in the observed planet for at least the age of the system. While such companions produce stellar reflex velocities which are fractions of a meter per second and hence are below the stellar jitter limit, they are consistent with recent theoretical work which suggests that the planet migration process often produces low-mass companions to short-period giants.

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