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在演化的低质量开普勒巨星HD 175370周围发现行星候选者

The discovery of a planetary candidate around the evolved low-mass Kepler giant star HD 175370

M. Hrudková, A. Hatzes, R. Karjalainen, H. Lehmann, S. Hekker, M. Hartmann, A. Tkachenko, S. Prins, H. van Winckel, R. de Nutte, L. Dumortier, Y. Frémat, H. Hen… 展开作者

M. Hrudková, A. Hatzes, R. Karjalainen, H. Lehmann, S. Hekker, M. Hartmann, A. Tkachenko, S. Prins, H. van Winckel, R. de Nutte, L. Dumortier, Y. Frémat, H. Hensberge, A. Jorissen, P. Lampens, M. Laverick, R. Lombaert, P. I. Pápics, G. Raskin, Á. Sódor, A. Thoul, S. van Eck, C. Waelkens

摘要:

本文报道了在K2 III巨星HD 175370(KIC 007940959)周围发现的一颗最小质量为Msini = 4.6M_J的行星伴星。这颗恒星是我们在开普勒观测的95颗巨星样本周围寻找行星的计划中的一个目标。这一探测是通过使用2米阿尔弗雷德·延施望远镜的Coude阶梯光栅摄谱仪和1.2米墨卡托望远镜的光纤馈入阶梯光栅摄谱仪HERMES在5年零4个月内对HD 175370进行精确的恒星径向速度测量而实现的。我们的径向速度测量揭示了一个周期性(349.5天)的变化与半振幅K = 133米/秒,叠加在一个长期的趋势。一颗轨道周期约为88年的低质量伴星在一个高偏心率的轨道上,一颗行星在一个开普勒轨道上,偏心率e = 0.22,是径向速度变化最合理的解释。然而,我们不能排除恒星包络脉动的存在作为低振幅径向速度变化的原因,只有未来继续监测这个系统可能会回答这种不确定性。从开普勒光度测量中我们发现HD 175370很可能是一颗低质量的红巨星分支星或渐近巨星分支星。

英文摘要:

We report on the discovery of a planetary companion candidate with a minimum mass Msini = 4.6 M_J orbiting the K2 III giant star HD 175370 (KIC 007940959). This star was a target in our program to search for planets around a sample of 95 giant stars observed with Kepler. This detection was made possible using precise stellar radial velocity measurements of HD 175370 taken over five years and four months using the coude echelle spectrograph of the 2-m Alfred Jensch Telescope and the fibre-fed echelle spectrograph HERMES of the 1.2-m Mercator Telescope. Our radial velocity measurements reveal a periodic (349.5 days) variation with a semi-amplitude K = 133 m/s, superimposed on a long-term trend. A low-mass stellar companion with an orbital period of ~88 years in a highly eccentric orbit and a planet in a Keplerian orbit with an eccentricity e = 0.22 are the most plausible explanation of the radial velocity variations. However, we cannot exclude the existence of stellar envelope pulsations as a cause for the low-amplitude radial velocity variations and only future continued monitoring of this system may answer this uncertainty. From Kepler photometry we find that HD 175370 is most likely a low-mass red-giant branch or asymptotic-giant branch star.

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