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开普勒探测到的疏散星团中的行星

Planets in Open Clusters Detectable by Kepler

Sourav Chatterjee, Eric B. Ford, Aaron M. Geller, Frederic A. Rasio

摘要:

虽然在场星周围已经发现了数百颗行星,但在星团中只有少数行星是已知的。为了解释球状星团(GC)中缺乏短周期巨行星的原因,如图桉47和半人马座ω,有人认为它们的低金属丰度可能阻止了行星形成。或者,这些星团中恒星的高频率近距离相遇可能影响了行星系的形成和随后的演化。在正常的主序星周围的星团中,行星有多常见?在这里,我们考虑是否可以使用开普勒任务的数据来解决这个问题。开普勒的视野包含4个低密度(相对于GC)疏散星团,其中金属丰度约为太阳(甚至更高),恒星遭遇比典型的GC少得多。我们提供了详细的$N$ -体模型,并表明开普勒探测轨道上的大多数行星并没有受到这些疏散星团中恒星相遇的显著扰动。我们专注于最大的集群,NGC 6791,它具有超太阳的金属丰度,并发现如果行星在这个集群中形成的频率与在现场观察到的相同,开普勒可以检测到1 - 20过境行星取决于行星的大小分布和数据收集的持续时间。由于距离NGC 6791很远,开普勒将不得不搜索相对暗淡的($K_p<20$)恒星,以完成全面的扩展任务,以实现这样的收益。

英文摘要:

While hundreds of planets have been discovered around field stars, only a few are known in star clusters. To explain the lack of short-period giant planets in globular clusters (GC), such as 47 Tucane and ω Centauri, it has been suggested that their low metallicities may have prevented planet formation. Alternatively, the high rates of close stellar encounters in these clusters may have influenced the formation and subsequent evolution of planetary systems. How common are planets in clusters around normal main-sequence stars? Here we consider whether this question can be addressed using data from the Kepler mission. The Kepler field of view contains 4 low-density (relative to GCs) open clusters where the metallicities are about solar (or even higher) and stellar encounters are much less frequent than in typical GCs. We provide detailed $N$-body models and show that most planets in Kepler-detectable orbits are not significantly perturbed by stellar encounters in these open clusters. We focus on the most massive cluster, NGC 6791, which has super-solar metallicity, and find that if planets formed in this cluster at the same frequency as observed in the field, Kepler could detect 1 -- 20 transiting planets depending on the planet-size distribution and the duration of data collection. Due to the large distance to NGC 6791 Kepler will have to search relatively faint ($K_p<20$) stars for the full extended mission to achieve such a yield.

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