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星系扰动对宽双星的行星系破坏

Planetary System Disruption by Galactic Perturbations to Wide Binary Stars

Nathan A. Kaib, Sean N. Raymond, Martin Duncan

摘要:

在双星系统中发现的系外行星中,有近一半是在平均恒星间距超过1,000天文单位(1天文单位是地球到太阳的距离)的非常宽的双星系统中,然而这种遥远的双星伴星对行星演化的影响仍然没有被研究。与它们更紧密的对应物不同,宽联星的恒星轨道在银河潮汐和其他经过恒星的脉冲的影响下不断变化。在这里,我们报告的数值模拟表明,广泛的双星轨道的可变性质显着重塑行星系,他们的主机,通常陀螺形成后。与先前的理解相反,宽的双星伴星可能经常强烈地扰动行星系,引发行星抛射和激发幸存行星的轨道偏心率。事实上,观测到的系外行星偏心率提供了证据;在宽双星中的巨型系外行星轨道在统计上比孤立恒星周围的轨道更偏心。当我们假设孤立恒星和宽双星拥有相似的行星系,其最外层的巨行星通过早期的内部不稳定性分散在离母星10 AU以上时,这两种偏心率分布都能很好地再现。因此,我们的研究结果表明,虽然宽联星最终截断其行星系,大多数孤立的巨型系外行星系统拥有额外的遥远,仍然未被发现的行星。

英文摘要:

Nearly half of the exoplanets found within binary star systems reside in very wide binaries with average stellar separations beyond 1,000 AU (1 AU being the Earth-Sun distance), yet the influence of such distant binary companions on planetary evolution remains largely unstudied. Unlike their tighter counterparts, the stellar orbits of wide binaries continually change under the influence of the Galactic tide and impulses from other passing stars. Here we report numerical simulations demonstrating that the variable nature of wide binary star orbits dramatically reshapes the planetary systems they host, typically Gyrs after formation. Contrary to previous understanding, wide binary companions may often strongly perturb planetary systems, triggering planetary ejections and exciting orbital eccentricities of surviving planets. Indeed, observed exoplanet eccentricities offer evidence of this; giant exoplanet orbits within wide binaries are statistically more eccentric than those around isolated stars. Both eccentricity distributions are well-reproduced when we assume isolated stars and wide binaries host similar planetary systems whose outermost giant planets are scattered beyond ~10 AU from their parent stars via early internal instabilities. Consequently, our results suggest that although wide binaries eventually truncate their planetary systems, most isolated giant exoplanet systems harbor additional distant, still undetected planets.

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