Christopher C. Stark, Alan P. Boss, Alycia J. Weinberger, Brian K. Jackson, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Marshall Johnson, Caroline Caldwell, Eric Agol, Er… 展开作者
Christopher C. Stark, Alan P. Boss, Alycia J. Weinberger, Brian K. Jackson, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Marshall Johnson, Caroline Caldwell, Eric Agol, Eric B. Ford, Jennifer R. Hall, Khadeejah A. Ibrahim, Jie Li
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22 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Planets embedded within dust disks may drive the formation of large scale clumpy dust structures by trapping dust into resonant orbits. Detection and subsequent modeling of the dust structures would help constrain the mass and orbit of the planet and the disk architecture, give clues to the history of the planetary system, and provide a statistical estimate of disk asymmetry for future exoEarth-imaging missions. Here we present the first search for these resonant structures in the inner regions of planetary systems by analyzing the light curves of hot Jupiter planetary candidates identified by the Kepler mission. We detect only one candidate disk structure associated with KOI 838.01 at the 3-sigma confidence level, but subsequent radial velocity measurements reveal that KOI 838.01 is a grazing eclipsing binary and the candidate disk structure is a false positive. Using our null result, we place an upper limit on the frequency of dense exozodi structures created by hot Jupiters. We find that at the 90% confidence level, less than 21% of Kepler hot Jupiters create resonant dust clumps that lead and trail the planet by ~90 degrees with optical depths >~5*10^-6, which corresponds to the resonant structure expected for a lone hot Jupiter perturbing a dynamically cold dust disk 50 times as dense as the zodiacal cloud.
Detectable molecular features above hydrocarbon haze via transmission spectroscopy with JWST: Case studies of GJ 1214b-, GJ 436b-, HD 97658b-, and Kepler-51b-like planets
Isochrone-cloud fitting and asteroseismology of the Kepler open cluster NGC6866
Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven（KU鲁汶大学天文学研究所）；Centre for Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland（南昆士兰大学天体物理中心）；Department of Astrophysics, IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen（拉特罗布大学IMAPP天体物理学系）；Max Planck Institut für Astronomie（马克斯·普朗克天文学研究所）
Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $α$ Cen A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis
本研究利用 JWST/MIRI 首次对双星系统 $α$ Cen A 进行参考星差分成像，在宜居带发现候选巨行星 $S1$，并实现了迄今最深的外黄道盘探测灵敏度，但需后续观测确认其行星属性。
Early Stages of Protostellar Disk Evolution: A Link to the Initial Cloud Core
University of Western Ontario（韦仕敦大学）；Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto（多伦多大学加拿大理论天体物理研究所）；Max Planck Institute for Astronomy（马克斯·普朗克天文学研究所）
Disc formation in turbulent cloud cores: is magnetic flux loss necessary to stop the magnetic braking catastrophe or not?
Santos-Lima、de Gouveia Dal Pino和Lazarian（2012年）最近对湍流磁化云核中开普勒盘形成的数值分析表明，重联扩散是一个有效的过程，可以在旋转支撑盘的形成过程中去除多余的磁通量。这个过程是由湍流中磁场的快速重联引起的。在一项类似的数值研究中，Seifried等人（2012年）得出结论，重联扩散或任何其他非理想MHD效应都是不必要的，仅湍流剪切就可以提供一种自然的方式来建立旋转盘，而不需要磁通量损失。他们的结论是基于这样一个事实，即在半径远大于圆盘的球形区域上计算的平均质量通量比（μ）在他们的模型中几乎是恒定的。在这封信中，我们比较了两组模拟，并表明这种在大尺度上的平均可以掩盖在圆盘形成的内部区域μ的显着实际增加。我们表明，在吸积的湍流包络材料中，在盘形成的初始阶段发生了磁场的重联扩散。我们的分析是暗示，重连扩散是存在于这两套模拟，并提供了一个简单的解决方案的“磁制动灾难”，这是在文献中讨论的形成原恒星吸积盘。
The VLA Nascent Disk and Multiplicity Survey of Perseus Protostars (VANDAM). V. 18 Candidate Disks around Class 0 and I Protostars in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
