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来自系外行星KIC 12557548 b的尘埃云演化的直接证据

Direct evidence for an evolving dust cloud from the exoplanet KIC 12557548 b

Jakub J. Bochinski, Carole A. Haswell, Tom R. Marsh, Vikram S. Dhillon, Stuart P. Littlefair

摘要:

我们使用ULTRACAM对凌日系外行星KIC 12557548 b(也称为KIC 1255 b)进行了同步多色光学测光。这首次揭示了过境深度的颜色依赖性。我们的g和z凌日在形状上与开普勒短节奏剖面的平均值相似,构成了现存最高质量的个别凌日覆盖范围。我们的Night 1过境深度在z中为0.85 +/- 0.04%; g为1.00 +/- 0.03%; u为1.1 +/- 0.3%。我们采用残差置换方法来评估相关噪声对z和g带之间的深度差的影响,并计算3.2σ处的颜色依赖性的显著性。Night 1的深度与ISM中观测到的尘埃消光相一致,但需要与ISM中发现的最大颗粒尺寸相当的颗粒尺寸:0.25-1μm。这提供了直接的证据,支持这个物体是一个破坏性的低质量岩石行星,喂养了过境的尘埃云。在剩下的四个晚上的观测中,该物体处于罕见的浅凌阶段。如果过境尘埃云中的颗粒尺寸随着过境深度的变化而变化,则消光效率将以依赖于波长和成分的方式变化。观测波长依赖的过境深度的变化将提供一个前所未有的机会,以确定解体的岩石体KIC 12557548 b的组成。我们检测到四个出过境u波段事件符合恒星耀斑。

英文摘要:

We present simultaneous multi-color optical photometry using ULTRACAM of the transiting exoplanet KIC 12557548 b (also known as KIC 1255 b). This reveals, for the first time, the color dependence of the transit depth. Our g and z transits are similar in shape to the average Kepler short-cadence profile, and constitute the highest-quality extant coverage of individual transits. Our Night 1 transit depths are 0.85 +/- 0.04% in z; 1.00 +/- 0.03% in g; and 1.1 +/- 0.3% in u. We employ a residual-permutation method to assess the impact of correlated noise on the depth difference between the z and g bands and calculate the significance of the color dependence at 3.2σ. The Night 1 depths are consistent with dust extinction as observed in the ISM, but require grain sizes comparable to the largest found in the ISM: 0.25-1μm. This provides direct evidence in favor of this object being a disrupting low-mass rocky planet, feeding a transiting dust cloud. On the remaining four nights of observations the object was in a rare shallow-transit phase. If the grain size in the transiting dust cloud changes as the transit depth changes, the extinction efficiency is expected to change in a wavelength- and composition-dependent way. Observing a change in the wavelength-dependent transit depth would offer an unprecedented opportunity to determine the composition of the disintegrating rocky body KIC 12557548 b. We detected four out-of-transit u band events consistent with stellar flares.

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