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arXiv 2001.10595astro-ph.EPastro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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在各种恒星环境中,近距离恒星相遇将行星踢出宜居带

Close stellar encounters kicking planets out of habitable zone in various stellar environments

Behzad Bojnordi-Arbab, Sohrab Rahvar

摘要:

行星的持续可居住性是高级生命形式出现的关键条件,但它可能会受到恒星相遇等天文事件的威胁。本研究的目的是分析能够改变行星轨道最初在星周宜居带的近距离恒星相遇,并调查在各种恒星环境中的预期相遇率。利用三体系统的引力模拟,本研究分析了碰撞参数与系统的运动学、几何学和可居住性参数的依赖关系。我们还使用了各种恒星区域的运动学特性,并估计了事件的遭遇率。在40亿年内,在太阳附近的威胁性恒星相遇的预期数量是$\approx3.9\times10^{-4}$,而对于银河系凸起环境,我们预计大约是这个值的5.5倍。计算了其他恒星环境下的相遇率,估算了球状矮星系和球状星团的相遇率。结果表明,与太阳邻域相比,近距离恒星相遇在稠密恒星环境中具有连续可居住性的行星的预期数量中起着重要作用。另一个值得注意的结果表明,威胁恒星的遭遇率遵循恒星的数量密度,而不是强烈依赖于该地区的速度色散。需要进一步调查,以研究长期的多行星系,以及它们如何改变持续宜居行星的总体预期值。

英文摘要:

Continuous habitability of a planet is a critical condition for advanced forms of life to appear, but it can be endangered by astronomical events such as stellar encounters. The purpose of this study is to analyze close stellar encounters able to change planetary orbits initially in circumstellar habitable zones and to investigate the expected encounter rates in a variety of stellar environments. Using gravitational simulations for three-body systems, this study analyzed the dependencies of encounter impact-parameters with kinematic, geometric, and habitability parameters of the system. We also used kinematic properties of various stellar regions and estimated encounter rates of the events. The expected number of threatening stellar encounters in the Solar neighborhood is $\approx3.9\times10^{-4}$ in 4 billion years, while for the Galactic bulge environment, we expect approximately 5.5 times the value. The encounter rates for other stellar environments are calculated and spheroidal dwarf galaxies and globular clusters encounter rates are estimated. The results show that in contrast with the solar neighborhood, close stellar encounters can play a significant role in the expected number of planets with continuous habitability in dense stellar environments. Another notable result shows that threatening stellar encounter rate follows the number density of stars, and is not strongly dependent of the region's velocity dispersion. Further investigations are needed to study long-term multiple planetary systems and how they can change the overall expected value of continuously habitable planets.

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