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近距离行星系中自旋-轨道失调的早期激发

Early Excitation of Spin-Orbit Misalignments in Close-in Planetary Systems

Christopher Spalding, Konstantin Batygin

摘要:

对居住在其主星附近的凌日行星的持续观测特征表明,相当一部分这类物体的轨道相对于其恒星的自转轴倾斜。越来越多的证据表明这种现象的广泛存在,这对传统的观念提出了挑战,即大规模的轨道运输发生在行星形成的早期阶段,并通过行星盘的相互作用完成。然而,最近的工作表明,原行星状星云和它们的宿主恒星之间的自旋轨道不对准的激发可以自然地产生于多恒星系统中的引力摄动以及磁盘-恒星耦合。在这项工作中,我们研究这些过程中串联。我们开始了一个彻底的探索引力促进收购的自旋轨道错位和分析表明,整个可能的范围内的错位可以平凡地再现。此外,我们证明了可观测的自旋轨道失调只取决于原始盘双星轨道倾角。随后,我们增加我们的治疗占磁转矩,并表明,更多的异国情调的动力学演化是可能的,提供了有利的条件,磁倾斜。累积起来,我们的研究结果表明,所观察到的自旋轨道错位是完全一致的磁盘驱动的迁移作为一个主要的机制,起源的近距离行星。

英文摘要:

Continued observational characterization of transiting planets that reside in close proximity to their host stars has shown that a substantial fraction of such objects posses orbits that are inclined with respect to the spin axes of their stars. Mounting evidence for the wide-spread nature of this phenomenon has challenged the conventional notion that large-scale orbital transport occurs during the early epochs of planet formation and is accomplished via planet-disk interactions. However, recent work has shown that the excitation of spin-orbit misalignment between protoplanetary nebulae and their host stars can naturally arise from gravitational perturbations in multi-stellar systems as well as magnetic disk-star coupling. In this work, we examine these processes in tandem. We begin with a thorough exploration of the gravitationally-facilitated acquisition of spin-orbit misalignment and analytically show that the entire possible range of misalignments can be trivially reproduced. Moreover, we demonstrate that the observable spin-orbit misalignment only depends on the primordial disk-binary orbit inclination. Subsequently, we augment our treatment by accounting for magnetic torques and show that more exotic dynamical evolution is possible, provided favorable conditions for magnetic tilting. Cumulatively, our results suggest that observed spin-orbit misalignments are fully consistent with disk-driven migration as a dominant mechanism for the origin of close-in planets.

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