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监视器项目:在疏散星团NGC 2362中寻找凌日

The Monitor project: the search for transits in the open cluster NGC 2362

Adam A. Miller, Jonathan Irwin, Suzanne Aigrain, Simon Hodgkin, Leslie Hebb

摘要:

本文介绍了在一个约500万年前的疏散星团NGC 2362中系统地寻找凌日行星的结果。我们观察了约1200个候选星团成员,其中约475个被认为是真正的星团成员,总共约100小时。我们确定了15个光变曲线,通过我们所有的检测标准的流量减少,和6个候选人的掩星深度与行星伴侣兼容。这六个光变曲线的变化需要非常大的行星才能重现观测到的凌日深度。如果我们假设我们的候选者中没有一个实际上是行星,那么我们可以对NGC 2362中具有热彗星(HJ)的恒星的比例设定上限。假设所有HJ的行星半径为1.5R_Jup,我们得到了1-3和3-10天轨道上具有HJ的恒星比例(f_p)的99%置信上限分别为0.22和0.70。这些上限代表了观测到的年龄<~ 1000万年时拥有HJ的恒星数量的限制,当时绝大多数恒星被认为已经失去了原行星盘。最后,我们把我们的结果推广到整个监视器计划,一个寻找年轻的疏散星团的行星凌日的巡天,发现按目前设计的巡天应该能够把f_p的上限放在太阳附近的观测值附近。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a systematic search for transiting planets in a ~5 Myr open cluster, NGC 2362. We observed ~1200 candidate cluster members, of which ~475 are believed to be genuine cluster members, for a total of ~100 hours. We identify 15 light curves with reductions in flux that pass all our detection criteria, and 6 of the candidates have occultation depths compatible with a planetary companion. The variability in these six light curves would require very large planets to reproduce the observed transit depth. If we assume that none of our candidates are in fact planets then we can place upper limits on the fraction of stars with hot Jupiters (HJs) in NGC 2362. We obtain 99% confidence upper limits of 0.22 and 0.70 on the fraction of stars with HJs (f_p) for 1-3 and 3-10 day orbits, respectively, assuming all HJs have a planetary radius of 1.5R_Jup. These upper limits represent observational constraints on the number of stars with HJs at an age <~10 Myr, when the vast majority of stars are thought to have lost their protoplanetary discs. Finally, we extend our results to the entire Monitor Project, a survey searching young, open clusters for planetary transits, and find that the survey as currently designed should be capable of placing upper limits on f_p near the observed values of f_p in the solar neighbourhood.

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