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为探测类地行星凌日模拟类太阳变化。I.三点模型与谐波函数拟合的性能

Modelling solar-like variability for the detection of Earth-like planetary transits. I. Performance of the three-spot modelling and harmonic function fitting

A. S. Bonomo, A. F. Lanza

摘要:

我们提出了一个比较两种方法的拟合类太阳的变化,以提高效率的检测类地行星过境整个磁盘的类太阳恒星。其中之一是谐波拟合方法,再加上BLS检测算法在第一次CoRoT盲测试期间表现出最佳性能。我们应用蒙特卡罗方法,针对行星半径、轨道周期、首次凌日历元和光子散粒噪声标准差的不同值,模拟了大量持续150天的光变曲线。假设在所有情况下,恒星的变化都是由在接近太阳活动周期23的最大值时观测到的太阳总辐照度变化给出的。在拟合太阳变率之后,通过BLS算法搜索凌日。我们发现,一个模型的基础上三个点状活动区是更好地适合比一个最佳的拟合与200个谐波函数的线性组合,以减少恒星微变的影响,提供的噪声的标准偏差是2-4倍大于中央深度的过境。另一方面,当噪声的标准偏差与过境深度相当时,200谐波拟合更好。我们的研究结果表明,一个模型的优势,包括一个简单的,但物理动机的治疗恒星的微变检测行星过境时,光子散粒噪声的标准偏差大于过境深度和恒星的变化是类似于太阳辐照度的变化。

英文摘要:

We present a comparison of two methods of fitting solar-like variability to increase the efficiency of detection of Earth-like planetary transits across the disk of a Sun-like star. One of them is the harmonic fitting method that coupled with the BLS detection algorithm demonstrated the best performance during the first CoRoT blind test. We apply a Monte Carlo approach by simulating a large number of light curves of duration 150 days for different values of planetary radius, orbital period, epoch of the first transit, and standard deviation of the photon shot noise. Stellar variability is assumed in all the cases to be given by the Total Solar Irradiance variations as observed close to the maximum of solar cycle 23. After fitting solar variability, transits are searched for by means of the BLS algorithm. We find that a model based on three point-like active regions is better suited than a best fit with a linear combination of 200 harmonic functions to reduce the impact of stellar microvariability provided that the standard deviation of the noise is 2-4 times larger than the central depth of the transits. On the other hand, the 200-harmonic fit is better when the standard deviation of the noise is comparable to the transit depth. Our results show the advantage of a model including a simple but physically motivated treatment of stellar microvariability for the detection of planetary transits when the standard deviation of the photon shot noise is greater than the transit depth and stellar variability is analogous to solar irradiance variations.

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