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凌日系外行星的同质研究。I.光变曲线分析

Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets. I. Light curve analyses

John Southworth

摘要:

我提出了一个均匀的分析过境光变曲线的14个观测良好的凌日系外行星。光变曲线使用JKTEBOP建模,随机误差使用蒙特卡罗模拟测量,相关噪声的影响包括使用残差置换算法。利用五种不同的恒星临边暗化定律,研究了临边暗化对光变曲线解和参数不确定性的重要性。线性LD定律不能完全拟合HD 209458的HST测光,但其他四个定律给出了非常相似的结果。在大多数情况下,将LD系数固定在理论值不会使结果产生偏差,但确实会导致误差估计值太小。可用的理论LD系数显然不同意从HD 209458的HST光变曲线测量的经验值; LD必须包括作为拟合参数时,分析高品质的光变曲线。在大多数情况下,我的分析结果与其他作者发现的值一致,但我发现的不确定性高达3倍。尽管如此,对HD 189733和HD 209458的独立光变曲线的分析彼此不一致。这种差异对于半径比(6.7和3.7 sigma)来说是最差的,这主要取决于过境的深度。因此,这不是由于分析方法,而是存在于光变曲线中。这些潜在的系统误差不能单独从简化的数据中检测出来。利用我的研究结果和恒星光谱轨道,我证实了凌日系外行星的表面重力和它们的轨道周期之间的相关性。[删节]

英文摘要:

I present an homogeneous analysis of the transit light curves of 14 well-observed transiting extrasolar planets. The light curves are modelled using JKTEBOP, random errors are measured using Monte Carlo simulations, and the effects of correlated noise are included using a residual-permutation algorithm. The importance of stellar limb darkening (LD) on the light curve solutions and parameter uncertainties is investigated using five different LD laws. The linear LD law cannot adequately fit the HST photometry of HD 209458, but the other four laws give very similar results to each other. In most cases fixing the LD coefficients at theoretical values does not bias the results, but DOES cause the error estimates to be too small. The available theoretical LD coefficients clearly disagree with empirical values measured from the HST light curves of HD 209458; LD must be included as fitted parameters when analysing high-quality light curves. In most cases the results of my analysis agree with the values found by other authors, but the uncertainties I find are up to 3 times larger. Despite this, the analyses of sets of independent light curves for both HD 189733 and HD 209458 do not agree with each other. This discrepancy is worst for the ratio of the radii (6.7 and 3.7 sigma), which depends primarily on the depth of the transit. It is therefore not due to the analysis method but is present in the light curves. These underlying systematic errors cannot be detected from the reduced data alone. Using my results and the stellar spectroscopic orbits, I confirm the correlation between the surface gravities of transiting extrasolar planets and their orbital periods. [abridged]

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