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行星凌日事件的直接成像

Direct Imaging of Planet Transit Events

Gerard T. van Belle, Kaspar von Braun, Tabetha Boyajian, Gail Schaefer

摘要:

对于光学干涉仪提供的超高分辨率能力来说,系外行星凌日事件是有吸引力的目标。天文学的两项发展的交叉使得能够直接对系外行星凌日进行成像:第一,提高干涉测量仪器的灵敏度和精度;第二,识别越来越亮的宿主恒星。目前正在努力利用CHARA阵列和海军精密光学干涉仪首次直接高精度探测闭合相位特征。当成功时,这些测量将能够恢复在天空中的凌日位置角,以及其他系统参数的表征,例如恒星半径,行星半径和凌日事件的其他参数。这种技术可以直接确定行星的半径,而不依赖于任何外部观测,并且似乎能够大大改善该半径的其他确定方法;它将有可能提取半径确定的波长依赖性,以连接到行星大气成分和结构的表征。其他直接观察到的参数-也不依赖于过境测光或光谱学-包括碰撞参量、过境进入时间和过境速度。

英文摘要:

Exoplanet transit events are attractive targets for the ultrahigh-resolution capabilities afforded by optical interferometers. The intersection of two developments in astronomy enable direct imaging of exoplanet transits: first, improvements in sensitivity and precision of interferometric instrumentation; and second, identification of ever-brighter host stars. Efforts are underway for the first direct high-precision detection of closure phase signatures with the CHARA Array and Navy Precision Optical Interferometer. When successful, these measurements will enable recovery of the transit position angle on the sky, along with characterization of other system parameters, such as stellar radius, planet radius, and other parameters of the transit event. This technique can directly determine the planet's radius independent of any outside observations, and appears able to improve substantially upon other determinations of that radius; it will be possible to extract wavelength dependence of that radius determination, for connection to characterization of planetary atmospheric composition & structure. Additional directly observed parameters - also not dependent on transit photometry or spectroscopy - include impact parameter, transit ingress time, and transit velocity.

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