- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/411/L46
- Title:
- Exoplanet magnetic fields
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/411/L46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- An asymmetry between the ingress and egress times was observed in the near-UV light curve of the transit planet WASP-12b. Such asymmetry led us to suggest that the early ingress in the UV light curve of WASP-12b, compared to the optical observations, is caused by a shock around the planet, and that shocks should be a common feature in transiting systems. Here, we classify all the transiting systems known to date according to their potential for producing shocks that could cause observable light curve asymmetries.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/733/68
- Title:
- Exoplanet masses derived from RVs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/733/68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Exoplanet searches using radial velocity (RV) and microlensing (ML) produce samples of "projected" mass and orbital radius, respectively. We present a new method for estimating the probability density distribution (density) of the unprojected quantity from such samples. For a sample of n data values, the method involves solving n simultaneous linear equations to determine the weights of delta functions for the raw, unsmoothed density of the unprojected quantity that cause the associated cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the projected quantity to exactly reproduce the empirical CDF of the sample at the locations of the n data values. We smooth the raw density using nonparametric kernel density estimation with a normal kernel of bandwidth {sigma}. We calibrate the dependence of {sigma} on n by Monte Carlo experiments performed on samples drawn from a theoretical density, in which the integrated square error is minimized. We scale this calibration to the ranges of real RV samples using the Normal Reference Rule. The resolution and amplitude accuracy of the estimated density improve with n. For typical RV and ML samples, we expect the fractional noise at the PDF peak to be approximately 80n^-log2^. For illustrations, we apply the new method to 67 RV values given a similar treatment by Jorissen et al. (2001A&A...379..992J), and to the 308 RV values listed at exoplanets.org on 2010 October 20.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/123/412
- Title:
- Exoplanet Orbit Database
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/123/412
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a database of well determined orbital parameters of exoplanets, and their host stars' properties. This database comprises spectroscopic orbital elements measured for 427 planets orbiting 363 stars from radial velocity and transit measurements as reported in the literature. We have also compiled fundamental transit parameters, stellar parameters, and the method used for the planets discovery. This Exoplanet Orbit Database includes all planets with robust, well measured orbital parameters reported in peer-reviewed articles. The Database is available in a searcheable, filterable, and sortable form on the Web at http://exoplanets.org through the Exoplanets Data Explorer Table, and the data can be plotted and explored through the Exoplanet Data Explorer Plotter. We use the Data Explorer to generate publication-ready plots giving three examples of the signatures of exoplanet migration and dynamical evolution: We illustrate the character of the apparent correlation between mass and period in exoplanet orbits, the different selection biases between radial velocity and transit surveys, and that the multiplanet systems show a distinct semi-major axis distribution from apparently singleton systems.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/612/511
- Title:
- Exoplanet radio emission
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/612/511
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We predict the radio flux densities of the extrasolar planets in the current census, making use of an empirical relation - the radiometric Bode's law - determined from the five "magnetic" planets in the solar system (the Earth and the four gas giants). Radio emission from these planets results from solar wind-powered electron currents depositing energy in the magnetic polar regions. We find that most of the known extrasolar planets should emit in the frequency range 10-1000 MHz and, under favorable circumstances, have typical flux densities as large as 1mJy. We also describe an initial, systematic effort to search for radio emission in low radio frequency images acquired with the Very Large Array (VLA). The limits set by the VLA images (~300mJy) are consistent with, but do not provide strong constraints on, the predictions of the model.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/646/523
- Title:
- Exoplanet systems with stellar companions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/646/523
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a reconnaissance for stellar companions to all 131 radial velocity-detected candidate extrasolar planetary systems known as of 2005 July 1. Common proper-motion companions were investigated using the multi-epoch STScI Digitized Sky Surveys and confirmed by matching the trigonometric parallax distances of the primaries to companion distances estimated photometrically. We also attempt to confirm or refute companions listed in the Washington Double Star Catalog (<I/237>), in the Catalogs of Nearby Stars Series by Gliese and Jahreiss (<V/70>, in Hipparcos results (<I/239>, and in Duquennoy & Mayor's radial velocity survey (1991A&A...248..485D). Our findings indicate that a lower limit of 30 (23%) of the 131 exoplanet systems have stellar companions. We report new stellar companions to HD 38529 and HD 188015 and a new candidate companion to HD 169830. We confirm many previously reported stellar companions, including six stars in five systems, that are recognized for the first time as companions to exoplanet hosts. We have found evidence that 20 entries in the Washington Double Star Catalog are not gravitationally bound companions. At least three (HD 178911, 16 Cyg B, and HD 219449), and possibly five (including HD 41004 and HD 38529), of the exoplanet systems reside in triple-star systems. Three exoplanet systems (GJ 86, HD 41004, and Cep) have potentially close-in stellar companions, with planets at roughly Mercury-Mars distances from the host star and stellar companions at projected separations of 20AU, similar to the SunUranus distance. Finally, two of the exoplanet systems contain white dwarf companions. This comprehensive assessment of exoplanet systems indicates that solar systems are found in a variety of stellar multiplicity environments - singles, binaries, and triples - and that planets survive the post-main-sequence evolution of companion stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/801/143
- Title:
- Extrasolar Kuiper belts from Herschel
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/801/143
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The study of the planet-debris disk connection can shed light on the formation and evolution of planetary systems and may help "predict" the presence of planets around stars with certain disk characteristics. In preliminary analyses of subsamples of the Herschel DEBRIS and DUNES surveys, Wyatt et al. (2012MNRAS.424.1206W) and Marshall et al. (2014A&A...565A..15M) identified a tentative correlation between debris and the presence of low-mass planets. Here we use the cleanest possible sample out of these Herschel surveys to assess the presence of such a correlation, discarding stars without known ages, with ages <1Gyr, and with binary companions <100AU to rule out possible correlations due to effects other than planet presence. In our resulting subsample of 204 FGK stars, we do not find evidence that debris disks are more common or more dusty around stars harboring high-mass or low-mass planets compared to a control sample without identified planets.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/538/A113
- Title:
- Extrasolar planets. Radial velocities of eight stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/538/A113
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mass domain where massive extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs lie is still poorly understood. Indeed, not even a clear dividing line between massive planets and brown dwarfs has been established yet. This is partly because these objects are very scarce in close orbits around solar-type stars, the so-called brown dwarf desert. Owing to this, it has proven difficult to set up a strong observational base with which to compare models and theories of formation and evolution. We search to increase the current sample of massive sub-stellar objects with precise orbital parameters, and to constrain the true mass of detected sub-stellar candidates
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/545/A55
- Title:
- Extrasolar planets. Radial velocities of 5 stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/545/A55
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present radial-velocity measurements obtained in one of a number of programs underway to search for extrasolar planets with the spectrograph SOPHIE at the 1.93-m telescope of the Haute-Provence Observatory. Targets were selected from catalogs observed with ELODIE, which had been mounted previously at the telescope, in order to detect long-period planets with an extended database close to 15 years.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/666/475
- Title:
- Extrasolar planet taxonomy
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/666/475
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we present the guidelines for an extrasolar planet taxonomy. The discovery of an increasing number of extrasolar planets showing a vast variety of planetary parameters, such as Keplerian orbital elements, and environmental parameters, such as stellar masses, spectral types, and metallicity, prompts the development of a planetary taxonomy. In this work, via principal component analysis followed by hierarchical clustering analysis, we report the definition of five robust groups of planets. We also discuss the physical relevance of such analysis, which may provide a valid basis for disentangling the role of the several physical parameters involved in the processes of planet formation and subsequent evolution. For instance, we were able to divide the hot Jupiters into two main groups on the basis of their stellar masses and metallicities. Moreover, for some groups, we find strong correlations among metallicity, semimajor axis, and eccentricity. The implications of these findings are discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/128/G4502
- Title:
- False alarms in Kepler planet candidate cat.
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/128/G4502
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new automated method to identify instrumental features masquerading as small, long-period planets in the Kepler planet candidate catalog. These systematics, mistakenly identified as planet transits, can have a strong impact on occurrence rate calculations because they cluster in a region of parameter space where Kepler's sensitivity to planets is poor. We compare individual transit-like events to a variety of models of real transits and systematic events and use a Bayesian information criterion to evaluate the likelihood that each event is real. We describe our technique and test its performance on simulated data. Results from this technique are incorporated in the Kepler Q1-Q17 DR24 planet candidate catalog of Coughlin et al. (2016, Cat. J/ApJS/224/12)
