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高质量b半人马座双星系统中的一颗宽轨道巨行星

A wide-orbit giant planet in the high-mass b Centauri binary system

Markus Janson, Raffaele Gratton, Laetitia Rodet, Mickael Bonnefoy, Philippe Delorme, Eric E. Mamajek, Sabine Reffert, Lukas Stock, Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Ma… 展开作者

Markus Janson, Raffaele Gratton, Laetitia Rodet, Mickael Bonnefoy, Philippe Delorme, Eric E. Mamajek, Sabine Reffert, Lukas Stock, Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Maud Langlois, Gael Chauvin, Silvano Desidera, Simon Ringqvist, Lucio Mayer, Gayathri Viswanath, Vito Squicciarini, Michael R. Meyer, Matthias Samland, Simon Petrus, Ravit Helled, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Sascha P. Quanz, Beth Biller, Thomas Henning, Dino Mesa, Natalia Engler, Joseph C. Carson

摘要:

行星形成发生在大范围的恒星质量和恒星系统结构周围。通过研究整个参数空间,特别是极端参数空间,可以更好地理解形成过程。早期对高质量恒星附近轨道上行星的研究表明,随着恒星质量的增加,巨行星的频率增加,直到1.9太阳质量的转换点,频率迅速下降。这可能意味着,在质量更大的恒星周围,行星形成受到阻碍,而在质量超过3个太阳的恒星周围,巨大的行星可能是罕见的或不存在的。然而,用于检测小轨道行星的方法对宽轨道行星不敏感。在这里,我们证明了存在一个行星在560倍的太阳-地球距离6-10太阳质量二进制b半人马座通过直接成像。行星与恒星的质量比为0.10-0.17%,与木星与太阳的质量比相似,但探测到的行星的距离比木星宽约100倍。我们的研究结果表明,行星可以居住在更大质量的恒星系统比从以前的结果外推预期。这颗行星不太可能是通过传统的核心吸积机制在原地形成的,但可能是在其他地方形成的,并通过动力学相互作用到达现在的位置,或者可能是通过引力不稳定性形成的。

英文摘要:

Planet formation occurs around a wide range of stellar masses and stellar system architectures. An improved understanding of the formation process can be achieved by studying it across the full parameter space, particularly toward the extremes. Earlier studies of planets in close-in orbits around high-mass stars have revealed an increase in giant planet frequency with increasing stellar mass until a turnover point at 1.9 solar masses, above which the frequency rapidly decreases. This could potentially imply that planet formation is impeded around more massive stars, and that giant planets around stars exceeding 3 solar masses may be rare or non-existent. However, the methods used to detect planets in small orbits are insensitive to planets in wide orbits. Here we demonstrate the existence of a planet at 560 times the Sun-Earth distance from the 6-10 solar mass binary b Centauri through direct imaging. The planet-to-star mass ratio of 0.10-0.17% is similar to the Jupiter-Sun ratio, but the separation of the detected planet is ~100 times wider than that of Jupiter. Our results show that planets can reside in much more massive stellar systems than what would be expected from extrapolation of previous results. The planet is unlikely to have formed in-situ through the conventional core accretion mechanism, but might have formed elsewhere and arrived to its present location through dynamical interactions, or might have formed via gravitational instability.

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