arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 0906.0544astro-ph.EPastro-ph.SR
收藏

一颗超冷恒星的候选行星

An Ultracool Star's Candidate Planet

Steven H. Pravdo, Stuart B. Shaklan

摘要:

我们在这里报告发现的第一颗行星周围的超冷矮星。它也是第一颗通过天体测量发现的围绕主序星运行的太阳系外巨行星。检测的统计显著性以两种方式示出。首先,天体测量学运动符合只存在松弛和适当运动的模型的概率为2 x 10^-8。其次,周期图分析表明,发现的周期是随机产生的,其虚警概率为3 x 10^-5。在最可能的模型中,行星质量为M2 = 6.4(+2.6,-3.1)兆焦耳,轨道周期为P = 0.744(+0.013,-0.008)年。在不太可能的模型中,过去的径向速度测量排除了高于13 MJ行星质量极限的伴星质量,除非系统径向速度超过当前上限的两倍,并且从未观察到近星点轨道相位。这个新的行星系之所以引人注目,部分原因是它的恒星VB 10接近恒星的质量下限。我们的天体测量观测提供了一个动态的质量测量,并将及时使我们能够面对这样的系统及其成员的形成和演化的理论模型。因此,我们增加了行星系的多样性和已知的少数M-矮行星。像VB 10 b这样的行星可能是数量最多的行星类型,因为M恒星占所有恒星的70%以上。到目前为止,它们仍然是隐藏的,因为占主导地位的径向速度(RV)行星发现技术对这些暗淡的红色系统相对不敏感。

英文摘要:

We report here the discovery of the first planet around an ultracool dwarf star. It is also the first extrasolar giant planet (EGP) astrometrically discovered around a main-sequence star. The statistical significance of the detection is shown in two ways. First, there is a 2 x 10^-8 probability that the astrometric motion fits a parallax-and-proper-motion-only model. Second, periodogram analysis shows a false alarm probability of 3 x 10^-5 that the discovered period is randomly generated. The planetary mass is M2 = 6.4 (+2.6,-3.1) Jupiter-masses (MJ), and the orbital period is P = 0.744 (+0.013,-0.008) yr in the most likely model. In less likely models, companion masses that are higher than the 13 MJ planetary mass limit are ruled out by past radial velocity measurements unless the system radial velocity is more than twice the current upper limits and the near-periastron orbital phase was never observed. This new planetary system is remarkable, in part, because its star, VB 10, is near the lower mass limit for a star. Our astrometric observations provide a dynamical mass measurement and will in time allow us to confront the theoretical models of formation and evolution of such systems and their members. We thus add to the diversity of planetary systems and to the small number of known M-dwarf planets. Planets such as VB 10b could be the most numerous type of planets because M stars comprise >70% of all stars. To date they have remained hidden since the dominant radial-velocity (RV) planet-discovery technique is relatively insensitive to these dim, red systems.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑