- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/199/24
- Title:
- The first three quarters of Kepler mission
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/199/24
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in the first three quarters of photometry data acquired by the Kepler mission. The targets of the search include 151722 stars which were observed over the full interval and an additional 19132 stars which were observed for only one or two quarters. From this set of targets we find a total of 5392 detections which meet the Kepler detection criteria: those criteria are periodicity of signal, an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio, and a composition test which rejects spurious detections which contain non-physical combinations of events. The detected signals are dominated by events with relatively low signal-to-noise ratio and by events with relatively short periods. The distribution of estimated transit depths appears to peak in the range between 40 and 100 parts per million, with a few detections down to fewer than 10 parts per million. The detections exhibit signal-to-noise ratios from 7.1{sigma}, which is the lower cutoff for detections, to over 10000{sigma}, and periods ranging from 0.5 days, which is the lower cutoff used in the procedure, to 109 days, which is the upper limit of achievable periods given the length of the data set and the criteria used for detections. The detected signals are compared to a set of known transit events in the Kepler field of view which were derived by a different method using a longer data interval; the comparison shows that the current search correctly identified 88.1% of the known events.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/544/A9
- Title:
- The International Deep Planet Survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/544/A9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Breakthrough direct detections of planetary companions orbiting A-type stars confirm the existence of massive planets at relatively large separations, but dedicated surveys are required to estimate the frequency of similar planetary systems. To measure the first estimation of the giant exoplanetary systems frequency at large orbital separation around A-stars, we have conducted a deep-imaging survey of young (8-400Myr), nearby (19-84pc) A- and F-stars to search for substellar companions in the ~10-300AU range. The sample of 42 stars combines all A-stars observed in previous AO planet search surveys reported in the literature with new AO observations from VLT/NaCo and Gemini/NIRI. It represents an initial subset of the International Deep Planet Survey (IDPS) sample of stars covering M- to B-stars. The data were obtained with diffraction-limited observations in H- and Ks-band combined with angular differential imaging to suppress the speckle noise of the central stars, resulting in typical 5-sigma detection limits in magnitude difference of 12mag at 1", 14mag at 2" and 16mag at 5" which is sufficient to detect massive planets. A detailed statistical analysis of the survey results is performed using Monte Carlo simulations. Considering the planet detections, we estimate the fraction of A-stars having at least one massive planet (3-14M_Jup_) in the range 5-320AU to be inside 5.9-18.8% at 68% confidence, assuming a flat distribution for the mass of the planets. By comparison, the brown dwarf (15-75M_Jup_) frequency for the sample is 2.0-8.9% at 68% confidence in the range 5-320AU. Assuming power law distributions for the mass and semimajor axis of the planet population, the AO data are consistent with a declining number of massive planets with increasing orbital radius which is distinct from the rising slope inferred from radial velocity (RV) surveys around evolved A-stars and suggests that the peak of the massive planet population around A-stars may occur at separations between the ranges probed by existing RV and AO observations. Finally, we report the discovery of three new close M-star companions to HIP 104365 and HIP 42334.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/622/1102
- Title:
- The planet-metallicity correlation.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/622/1102
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have recently carried out spectral synthesis modeling to determine T_eff_, log(g), vsin(i), and [Fe/H] for 1040 FGK-type stars on the Keck, Lick, and Anglo-Australian Telescope planet search programs. This is the first time that a single, uniform spectroscopic analysis has been made for every star on a large Doppler planet search survey. We identify a subset of 850 stars that have Doppler observations sufficient to detect uniformly all planets with radial velocity semiamplitudes K>30m/s and orbital periods shorter than 4yr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/624/A94
- Title:
- The role of the host star's metallicity
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/624/A94
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Most of our current understanding of the planet formation mechanism is based on the planet metallicity correlation derived mostly from solar-type stars harbouring gas-giant planets. To achieve a more extensive grasp on the substellar formation process, we aim to analyse in terms of their metallicity a diverse sample of stars (in terms of mass and spectral type) covering the whole range of possible outcomes of the planet formation process (from planetesimals to brown dwarfs and low-mass binaries). Our methodology is based on the use of high-precision stellar parameters derived by our own group in previous works from high-resolution spectra by using the iron ionisation and equilibrium conditions. All values were derived in an homogeneous way, except for the M dwarfs where a methodology based on the use of pseudo equivalent widths of spectral features was used. Our results show that as the mass of the substellar companion increases the metallicity of the host star tends to lower values. The same trend is maintained when analysing stars with low-mass stellar companions and a tendency towards a wide range of host star's metallicity is found for systems with low-mass planets. We also confirm that more massive planets tend to orbit around more massive stars. The core-accretion formation mechanism for planet formation achieves its maximum efficiency for planets with masses in the range 0.2 and 2M_{Jup}_. Substellar objects with higher masses have higher probabilities of being formed as stars. Low-mass planets and planetesimals might be formed by core-accretion even around low-metallicity stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/210/5
- Title:
- The twenty-five year Lick planet search
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/210/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Lick Planet Search program began in 1987 when the first spectrum of {tau} Ceti was taken with an iodine cell and the Hamilton Spectrograph. Upgrades to the instrument improved the Doppler precision from about 10m/s in 1992 to about 3m/s in 1995. The project detected dozens of exoplanets with orbital periods ranging from a few days to several years. The Lick survey identified the first planet in an eccentric orbit (70 Virginis) and the first multi-planet system around a normal main sequence star (Upsilon Andromedae). These discoveries advanced our understanding of planet formation and orbital migration. Data from this project helped to quantify a correlation between host star metallicity and the occurrence rate of gas giant planets. The program also served as a test bed for innovation with testing of a tip-tilt system at the Coud\'e focus and fiber scrambler designs to stabilize illumination of the spectrometer optics. The Lick Planet Search with the Hamilton Spectrograph effectively ended when a heater malfunction compromised the integrity of the iodine cell. Here, we present more than 14000 velocities for 386 stars that were surveyed between 1987 and 2011.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/422/1988
- Title:
- Three short-period, transiting exoplanets
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/422/1988
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of three extrasolar planets that transit their moderately bright (m_V_=12-13) host stars. WASP-44b is a 0.89-M_Jup_ planet in a 2.42-day orbit around a G8V star. WASP-45b is a 1.03-M_Jup_ planet which passes in front of the limb of its K2V host star every 3.13-days. Weak CaII H&K emission seen in the spectra of WASP-45 suggests that the star is chromospherically active. WASP-46b is a 2.10-M_Jup_ planet in a 1.43-day orbit around a G6V star. Rotational modulation of the light curves of WASP-46 and weak CaII H&K emission in its spectra show the star to be photospherically and chromospherically active.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/692/L9
- Title:
- Tidal evolution of transiting extrasolar planets
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/692/L9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We revisit the tidal stability of extrasolar systems harboring a transiting planet and demonstrate that, independently of any tidal model, none, but one (HAT-P-2b) of these planets has a tidal equilibrium state, which implies ultimately a collision of these objects with their host star. Consequently, conventional circularization and synchronization timescales cannot be defined because the corresponding states do not represent the endpoint of the tidal evolution. Using numerical simulations of the coupled tidal equations for the spin and orbital parameters of each transiting planetary system, we confirm these predictions and show that the orbital eccentricity and the stellar obliquity do not follow the usually assumed exponential relaxation but instead decrease significantly, eventually reaching a zero value only during the final runaway merging of the planet with the star. The only characteristic evolution timescale of all rotational and orbital parameters is the lifetime of the system, which crucially depends on the magnitude of tidal dissipation within the star. These results imply that the nearly circular orbits of transiting planets and the alignment between the stellar spin axis and the planetary orbit are unlikely to be due to tidal dissipation. Other dissipative mechanisms, for instance interactions with the protoplanetary disk, must be invoked to explain these properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/3608
- Title:
- Titius-Bode-based exoplanet predictions
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/448/3608
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyse a sample of multiple-exoplanet systems which contain at least three transiting planets detected by the Kepler mission ('Kepler multiples'). We use a generalized Titius-Bode relation to predict the periods of 228 additional planets in 151 of these Kepler multiples. These Titius-Bode-based predictions suggest that there are, on average, 2+/-1 planets in the habitable zone of each star. We estimate the inclination of the invariable plane for each system and prioritize our planet predictions by their geometric probability to transit. We highlight a short list of 77 predicted planets in 40 systems with a high geometric probability to transit, resulting in an expected detection rate of ~15%, ~3 times higher than the detection rate of our previous Titius-Bode-based predictions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/258
- Title:
- 2007.5 to 2010.4 HST astrometry of HD 202206
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/153/258
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor astrometry and previously published radial velocity measures, we explore the exoplanetary system HD202206. Our modeling results in a parallax, {pi}_abs_=21.96+/-0.12 milliseconds of arc, a mass for HD202206B of M_B_=0.089_-0.006_^+0.007M_{Sun}_, and a mass for HD202206c of M_c_=17.9_-1.8_^+2.9^M_Jup_. HD202206 is a nearly face-on G + M binary orbited by a brown dwarf. The system architecture that we determine supports past assertions that stability requires a 5:1 mean motion resonance (we find a period ratio, P_c_/P_B_=4.92+/-0.04) and coplanarity (we find a mutual inclination, {Phi}=6{deg}+/-2{deg}).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VI/155
- Title:
- Topocentric positions of Pluto
- Short Name:
- VI/155
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Catalog of 90 astrometric positions of Pluto have been compiled with Tycho-2 as a reference frame from photographic observations obtained at the Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Astronomical Observatory of the Kyiv Shevchenko National University, Research Institute Mykolaiv Astronomical Observatory and Baldone Observatory of the University of Latvia in 1961-1996. Astronegatives have been digitized with Epson Perfection V750 Pro and Epson Expression 10000XL commercial scanners in 16-bit grayscale with a resolution of 1200 dpi. (O-C) residuals obtained from the comparison with JPL PLU055/DE433 ephemeris are 0.09 ... 0.14 arcsec. Gallery of plate images used for catalog: http://gua.db.ukr-vo.org/catalog_gallery.php?catn=pluton_1961_1996
