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GJ1214超级地球系统:恒星变率、新凌日和寻找其他行星

The GJ1214 Super-Earth System: Stellar Variability, New Transits, and a Search for Additional Planets

Zachory K. Berta, David Charbonneau, Jacob Bean, Jonathan Irwin, Christopher J. Burke, Jean-Michel Désert, Philip Nutzman, Emilio E. Falco

摘要:

超级地球GJ1214 b凌日附近的M矮星,在近红外线中表现出1%的内在变化。在这里,我们分析了新的观测结果,以完善恒星和行星的物理特性。我们提出了三年的出过境测光监测恒星主机GJ1214从MEarth天文台,发现旋转周期很长,很可能是53天的整数倍,这表明低水平的磁活动和老年系统。我们表明,这种变化不会对正在进行的行星大气透射光谱研究造成重大问题。我们分析了来自ESO超大望远镜的2个高精度凌日光变曲线,以及来自MEarth和FLWO 1.2米望远镜的7个其他光变曲线,找到了与以前工作一致的行星物理参数。VLT的光变曲线显示出凌日期间有黑子掩星的初步证据。使用两年的MEarth光变曲线,我们对GJ1214周围的其他过境行星进行了限制,这些行星的周期在系统的宜居带之外。我们还改进了以前对该恒星的照相V波段估计,发现V = 14.71 \pm 0.03.

英文摘要:

The super-Earth GJ1214b transits a nearby M dwarf that exhibits 1% intrinsic variability in the near-infrared. Here, we analyze new observations to refine the physical properties of both the star and planet. We present three years of out-of-transit photometric monitoring of the stellar host GJ1214 from the MEarth Observatory and find the rotation period to be long, mostly likely an integer multiple of 53 days, suggesting low levels of magnetic activity and an old age for the system. We show such variability will not pose significant problems to ongoing studies of the planet's atmosphere with transmission spectroscopy. We analyze 2 high-precision transit light curves from ESO's Very Large Telescope along with 7 others from the MEarth and FLWO 1.2 meter telescopes, finding physical parameters for the planet that are consistent with previous work. The VLT light curves show tentative evidence for spot occultations during transit. Using two years of MEarth light curves, we place limits on additional transiting planets around GJ1214 with periods out to the habitable zone of the system. We also improve upon the previous photographic V -band estimate for the star, finding V = 14.71 \pm 0.03.

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