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开普勒行星巡天的APOGEE光谱巡天:可行性、效率和初步结果

The APOGEE Spectroscopic Survey of Kepler Planet Hosts: Feasibility, Efficiency, and First Results

Scott W. Fleming, Suvrath Mahadevan, Rohit Deshpande, Chad F. Bender, Ryan C. Terrien, Robert C. Marchwinski, Ji Wang, Arpita Roy, Keivan G. Stassun, Carlos All… 展开作者

Scott W. Fleming, Suvrath Mahadevan, Rohit Deshpande, Chad F. Bender, Ryan C. Terrien, Robert C. Marchwinski, Ji Wang, Arpita Roy, Keivan G. Stassun, Carlos Allende Prieto, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith, Eric Agol, Hasan Ak, Fabienne A. Bastien, Dmitry Bizyaev, Justin R. Crepp, Eric B. Ford, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Domingo Aníbal García-Hernández, Ana Elia García Pérez, B. Scott Gaudi, Jian Ge, Fred Hearty, Bo Ma, Steve R. Majewski, Szabolcs Mészáros, David L. Nidever, Kaike Pan, Joshua Pepper, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Donald P. Schneider, John C. Wilson, Olga Zamora, Gail Zasowski

摘要:

开普勒任务已经从开普勒感兴趣的天体(KOI)中获得了大量的行星候选者,但是这些相对暗淡的恒星的光谱跟踪是确认和表征这些系统的严重瓶颈。我们目前的动机和调查设计正在进行的项目与SDSS-III多路复用APOGEE近红外光谱仪监测数百个KOI主机星。我们报告了一些我们的第一个结果,使用我们的样本中的代表性目标,其中包括当前的行星候选人,我们发现是假阳性,以及候选人列为假阳性,我们没有发现光谱双星。通过这次调查,KOI主机被观察到超过20个历元,径向速度精度为100-200 m/s。这些观测可以很容易地识别出大多数由物理关联的恒星或亚恒星双星引起的误报,并在许多情况下,完全描述它们的轨道。我们证明,APOGEE是能够实现RV精度在100-200米/秒的水平,在长时间的基线,和APOGEE的多路复用能力,使其大大更有效地识别误报,由于二进制比其他单对象光谱仪工作,以确认KOIS作为行星。这些APOGEE RV使辅助科学项目,如基础恒星天体物理学或本质上罕见的亚恒星同伴的研究。APOGEE谱可以用来计算恒星的性质(T_eff,log(g))和十几种元素的化学丰度,以探索行星性质与单个元素丰度的关系。

英文摘要:

The Kepler mission has yielded a large number of planet candidates from among the Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs), but spectroscopic follow-up of these relatively faint stars is a serious bottleneck in confirming and characterizing these systems. We present motivation and survey design for an ongoing project with the SDSS-III multiplexed APOGEE near-infrared spectrograph to monitor hundreds of KOI host stars. We report some of our first results using representative targets from our sample, which include current planet candidates that we find to be false positives, as well as candidates listed as false positives that we do not find to be spectroscopic binaries. With this survey, KOI hosts are observed over ~20 epochs at a radial velocity precision of 100-200 m/s. These observations can easily identify a majority of false positives caused by physically-associated stellar or substellar binaries, and in many cases, fully characterize their orbits. We demonstrate that APOGEE is capable of achieving RV precision at the 100-200 m/s level over long time baselines, and that APOGEE's multiplexing capability makes it substantially more efficient at identifying false positives due to binaries than other single-object spectrographs working to confirm KOIs as planets. These APOGEE RVs enable ancillary science projects, such as studies of fundamental stellar astrophysics or intrinsically rare substellar companions. The coadded APOGEE spectra can be used to derive stellar properties (T_eff, log(g)) and chemical abundances of over a dozen elements to probe correlations of planet properties with individual elemental abundances.

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