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行星微透镜效应中主星的ELT识别与表征

Identification and characterization of the host stars in planetary microlensing with ELTs

Chien-Hsiu Lee, Rachel Street, Kailash Sahu, Eliad Peretz

摘要:

微透镜提供了一个独特的机会来探测温带和雪线以外的系外行星,小到木星卫星,在银河系外的距离,甚至自由浮动的系外行星,其他方法的灵敏度急剧下降的制度。这是因为微透镜效应并不依赖于行星宿主恒星的亮度。因此,微透镜方法在研究雪线以外的系外行星方面提供了很大的优势,对核心吸积机制进行了测试,特别是在气体吸积形成巨行星的逃逸阶段。在这里,我们建议使用微透镜方法稳健且常规地测量距离宿主恒星超过1 AU的系外行星的质量;我们的实验依赖于直接对宿主恒星(即透镜)进行成像和解析,使其与微透镜事件的背景源分离,这需要ELT提供的高空间分辨率。这个项目的一个直接结果将是雪线以外的行星出现率,这将使我们能够辨别不同的行星形成机制。

英文摘要:

Microlensing offers a unique opportunity to probe exoplanets that are temperate and beyond the snow line, as small as Jovian satellites, at extragalactic distance, and even free floating exoplanets, regimes where the sensitivity of other methods drops dramatically. This is because microlensing does not depend on the brightness of the planetary host star. The microlensing method thus provides great leverage in studying the exoplanets beyond the snow line, posing tests to the core accretion mechanism, especially on the run-away phase of gas accretion to form giant planets. Here we propose to robustly and routinely measure the masses of exoplanets beyond 1 AU from their host stars with the microlensing method; our experiment relies on directly imaging and resolving the host star (namely the lens) from the background source of the microlensing events, which requires the high spatial resolution delivered by the ELTs. A direct result from this project will be planet occurrence rate beyond the snow line, which will enable us to discern different planet formation mechanisms.

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