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我们在哪里可以找到超级地球?

Where can we find Super-Earths?

E. Podlewska-Gaca, E. Szuszkiewicz

摘要:

近年来,我们目睹了一个又一个太阳系外气体巨星的发现。现在是时候探测更多的低质量行星,如超级地球和类似地球的物体。一个有趣的问题是:我们应该在哪里寻找它们?我们在这里探索了在气体巨星附近发现超级地球的可能性,这是行星系早期演化的结果。为此,我们考虑了一个年轻的行星系,其中包含一个超级地球和一个气态巨星,它们都嵌入在一个原行星盘中。我们已经证明,如果超级地球相对于气体巨星位于内部轨道上,行星很容易被锁定在平均运动共振中。然而,如果超级地球在外部轨道上,情况就不再如此了。在这种情况下,我们已经得到,低质量的行星被捕获在一个陷阱的外边缘的间隙打开的巨行星和没有一阶平均运动的可预测性。我们的研究可能是特别有用的观测TTV(凌日定时变化)技术。

英文摘要:

In recent years we have been witnessing the discovery of one extrasolar gas giant after another. Now the time has come to detect more low-mass planets like Super-Earths and Earth-like objects. An interesting question to ask is: where should we look for them? We have explored here the possibility of finding Super-Earths in the close vicinity of gas giants, as a result of the early evolution of planetary systems. For this purpose, we have considered a young planetary system containing a Super-Earth and a gas giant, both embedded in a protoplanetary disc. We have shown that, if the Super-Earth is on the internal orbit relative to the gas giant, the planets can easily become locked in a mean motion resonance. This is no longer true, however, if the Super-Earth is on the external orbit. In this case we have obtained that the low-mass planet is captured in a trap at the outer edge of the gap opened by the giant planet and no first order mean motion commensurabilities are expected. Our investigations might be particularly useful for the observational TTV (Transit Timing Variation) technique.

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