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关于恒星-行星相互作用的可探测性

On the detectability of star-planet interaction

Brendan P. Miller, Elena Gallo, Jason T. Wright, Andrea K. Dupree

摘要:

“热彗星”与其宿主恒星之间的磁(或潮汐)相互作用可能会增强色球和日冕活动。极端的WASP-18系统提供了研究这种效应的理想试验平台,该系统具有一个巨大的(约10倍木星)近距离(约1天周期)过境行星,围绕一颗年轻的F6恒星运行。2011年11月对WASP-18进行了光学和X射线观测。6.5米麦哲伦克莱望远镜使用了高分辨率阶梯光栅光谱仪MIKE,获得了13个光谱,跨越行星轨道相位0.7-1.4,而雨燕上的X射线望远镜提供了同期监测,叠加曝光量约为50 k s。核心的钙II H和K线没有显示出显着的变化,在多个轨道跨度~8天,在相对于相位依赖色球活动增强有效的恒星-行星相互作用的预期。这颗恒星也是X射线暗弱的,log Lx < 27.6 erg/s(0.3-2 keV),表明日冕活动同样很低。在这个极端的系统中,缺乏可检测的恒星-行星相互作用,这就要求任何这样的效应在这里必须是短暂的,如果确实存在的话。我们表明,搜索钙II H和K的变化可能会错误的恒星热点,如果观察到在一个短的旋转周期,行星引起的活动。总之,这些结果表明,恒星-行星相互作用作为估计系外行星磁场强度的可靠方法的效用可能是有限的。

英文摘要:

Magnetic (or tidal) interactions between "hot Jupiters" and their host stars can potentially enhance chromospheric and coronal activity. An ideal testbed for investigating this effect is provided by the extreme WASP-18 system, which features a massive (~10 times Jupiter) close-in (~1 day period) transiting planet orbiting a young F6 star. Optical and X-ray observations of WASP-18 were conducted in November 2011. The high-resolution echelle spectrograph MIKE was used on the 6.5m Magellan Clay telescope to obtain 13 spectra spanning planetary orbital phases of 0.7-1.4, while the X-ray Telescope on Swift provided contemporaneous monitoring with a stacked exposure of ~50 ks. The cores of the Ca II H and K lines do not show significant variability over multiple orbits spanning ~8 d, in contrast to the expectation of phase-dependent chromospheric activity enhancements for efficient star-planet interaction. The star is also X-ray faint, with log Lx < 27.6 erg/s (0.3-2 keV), indicating that coronal activity is likewise low. The lack of detectable star-planet interaction in this extreme system requires that any such effect must here be transient, if indeed present. We demonstrate that searches for Ca II H and K variability can potentially mistake a stellar hotspot, if observed over a short segment of the rotation period, for planet-induced activity. Taken together, these results suggest that the utility of star-planet interaction as a robust method of estimating exoplanet magnetic field strengths may be limited.

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