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用于系外行星巡天的恒星活动F统计量(SAFE)

A Stellar Activity F-statistic for Exoplanet Surveys (SAFE)

Parker H. Holzer, Jessi Cisewski-Kehe, Lily Zhao, Eric B. Ford, Christian Gilbertson, Debra A. Fischer

摘要:

在寻找绕遥远恒星运行的行星时,观测恒星大气层中恒星活动的存在会掩盖用于探测此类行星的径向速度信号。此外,这种恒星活动污染是由恒星本身设置的,不能简单地通过更好的仪器来避免。已经开发出各种可能与这种污染相关的恒星活动指标。我们引入了一种新的恒星活动指标,称为系外行星调查的恒星活动F统计量(SAFE),具有更高的统计功效(即,在模拟研究类太阳恒星活动区时,该指标比许多传统的恒星活动指标更有可能探测到真正的恒星活动信号。此外,通过模拟,SAFE被证明是与投影面积上的可见光侧的恒星覆盖的活动区。我们还表明,安全检测统计上显着的恒星活动在大部分的光谱HD 22049,一颗恒星已知具有高恒星的变化。此外,SAFE还计算了最近对三颗低变率恒星HD 34411、HD 10700和HD 3651的观测结果,后者已知有一颗行星伴星。正如预期的那样,这三个国家的SAFE只是偶尔检测到活动。此外,初步探索似乎表明,SAFE可能是有用的解开恒星活动信号从行星引起的多普勒频移。

英文摘要:

In the search for planets orbiting distant stars the presence of stellar activity in the atmospheres of observed stars can obscure the radial velocity signal used to detect such planets. Furthermore, this stellar activity contamination is set by the star itself and cannot simply be avoided with better instrumentation. Various stellar activity indicators have been developed that may correlate with this contamination. We introduce a new stellar activity indicator called the Stellar Activity F-statistic for Exoplanet surveys (SAFE) that has higher statistical power (i.e., probability of detecting a true stellar activity signal) than many traditional stellar activity indicators in a simulation study of an active region on a Sun-like star with moderate to high signal-to-noise. Also through simulation, the SAFE is demonstrated to be associated with the projected area on the visible side of the star covered by active regions. We also demonstrate that the SAFE detects statistically significant stellar activity in most of the spectra for HD 22049, a star known to have high stellar variability. Additionally, the SAFE is calculated for recent observations of the three low-variability stars HD 34411, HD 10700, and HD 3651, the latter of which is known to have a planetary companion. As expected, the SAFE for these three only occasionally detects activity. Furthermore, initial exploration appears to indicate that the SAFE may be useful for disentangling stellar activity signals from planet-induced Doppler shifts.

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