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一颗候选巨行星凌日白矮星

A Giant Planet Candidate Transiting a White Dwarf

Andrew Vanderburg, Saul A. Rappaport, Siyi Xu, Ian Crossfield, Juliette C. Becker, Bruce Gary, Felipe Murgas, Simon Blouin, Thomas G. Kaye, Enric Palle, Carl Me… 展开作者

Andrew Vanderburg, Saul A. Rappaport, Siyi Xu, Ian Crossfield, Juliette C. Becker, Bruce Gary, Felipe Murgas, Simon Blouin, Thomas G. Kaye, Enric Palle, Carl Melis, Brett Morris, Laura Kreidberg, Varoujan Gorjian, Caroline V. Morley, Andrew W. Mann, Hannu Parviainen, Logan A. Pearce, Elisabeth R. Newton, Andreia Carrillo, Ben Zuckerman, Lorne Nelson, Greg Zeimann, Warren R. Brown, René Tronsgaard, Beth Klein, George R. Ricker, Roland K. Vanderspek, David W. Latham, Sara Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, Fred C. Adams, Björn Benneke, David Berardo, Lars A. Buchhave, Douglas A. Caldwell, Jessie L. Christiansen, Karen A. Collins, Knicole D. Colón, Tansu Daylan, John Doty, Alexandra E. Doyle, Diana Dragomir, Courtney Dressing, Patrick Dufour, Akihiko Fukui, Ana Glidden, Natalia M. Guerrero, Xueying Guo, Kevin Heng, Andreea I. Henriksen, Chelsea X. Huang, Lisa Kaltenegger, Stephen R. Kane, John A. Lewis, Jack J. Lissauer, Farisa Morales, Norio Narita, Joshua Pepper, Mark E. Rose, Jeffrey C. Smith, Keivan G. Stassun, Liang Yu

摘要:

天文学家已经在太阳系外发现了数千颗行星,其中大多数围绕最终将演变为红巨星,然后演变为白矮星的恒星运行。在红巨星阶段,任何近轨道的行星都会被恒星吞没,但更遥远的行星可以在这个阶段幸存下来,并保持在白矮星的轨道上。一些白矮星显示出岩石物质漂浮在其大气层中、温暖的碎片盘中或轨道非常接近的证据,这被解释为岩石行星的碎片向内分散并被潮汐破坏。最近,发现了一个气体碎片盘,其组成类似于冰巨行星,表明大质量行星也可能进入白矮星周围的紧密轨道,但目前还不清楚行星是否能够在旅程中幸存下来。到目前为止,在白矮星附近的近轨道上探测到完整的行星仍然是难以捉摸的。在这里,我们报告发现一个巨大的行星候选人过境的白矮星WD 1856+534(TIC 267574918)每1.4天。候选行星的大小与木星大致相同,质量不超过木星的14倍(95%置信度)。其他白矮星与棕矮星或恒星伴星的情况被解释为共同包层演化的结果,其中原始轨道在红巨星阶段被包裹,并因摩擦而收缩。然而,在这种情况下,行星候选者的低质量和相对较长的轨道周期使得共同包络演化的可能性较小。相反,WD 1856+534系统似乎证明了巨行星可以分散到紧密的轨道上而不会被潮汐破坏,并激发了在白矮星周围寻找较小的凌日行星。

英文摘要:

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the solar system, most of which orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then into white dwarfs. During the red giant phase, any close-orbiting planets will be engulfed by the star, but more distant planets can survive this phase and remain in orbit around the white dwarf. Some white dwarfs show evidence for rocky material floating in their atmospheres, in warm debris disks, or orbiting very closely, which has been interpreted as the debris of rocky planets that were scattered inward and tidally disrupted. Recently, the discovery of a gaseous debris disk with a composition similar to ice giant planets demonstrated that massive planets might also find their way into tight orbits around white dwarfs, but it is unclear whether the planets can survive the journey. So far, the detection of intact planets in close orbits around white dwarfs has remained elusive. Here, we report the discovery of a giant planet candidate transiting the white dwarf WD 1856+534 (TIC 267574918) every 1.4 days. The planet candidate is roughly the same size as Jupiter and is no more than 14 times as massive (with 95% confidence). Other cases of white dwarfs with close brown dwarf or stellar companions are explained as the consequence of common-envelope evolution, wherein the original orbit is enveloped during the red-giant phase and shrinks due to friction. In this case, though, the low mass and relatively long orbital period of the planet candidate make common-envelope evolution less likely. Instead, the WD 1856+534 system seems to demonstrate that giant planets can be scattered into tight orbits without being tidally disrupted, and motivates searches for smaller transiting planets around white dwarfs.

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