radial velocity detection of planets: ii. results to date 701 planets have been detected with the rv...
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Radial Velocity Detection of Planets:II. Results
• To date 701 planets have been detected with the RV method
• ca 500 planets discovered with the RV method. The others are from transit searches
• 94 are in Multiple Systems
→ exoplanets.org
Telescope Instrument Wavelength Reference
1-m MJUO Hercules Th-Ar
1.2-m Euler Telescope CORALIE Th-Ar
1.8-m BOAO BOES Iodine Cell
1.88-m Okayama Obs, HIDES Iodine Cell
1.88-m OHP SOPHIE Th-Ar
2-m TLS Coude Echelle Iodine Cell
2.2m ESO/MPI La Silla FEROS Th-Ar
2.7m McDonald Obs. Tull Spectroraph Iodine Cell
3-m Lick Observatory Hamilton Echelle Iodine Cell
3.8-m TNG SARG Iodine Cell
3.9-m AAT UCLES Iodine Cell
3.6-m ESO La Silla HARPS Th-Ar
8.2-m Subaru Telescope HDS Iodine Cell
8.2-m VLT UVES Iodine Cell
9-m Hobby-Eberly HRS Iodine Cell
10-m Keck HiRes Iodine Cell
Campbell & Walker: The Pioneers of RV Planet Searches
1980-1992 searched for planets around 26 solar-type stars. Even though they found evidence for planets, they were not 100% convinced. If they had looked at 100 stars they certainly would have found convincing evidence for exoplanets.
1988:
„Probable third body variation of 25 m s–1, 2.7 year period, superposed on a large velocity gradient“
Campbell, Walker, & Yang 1988
Eri was a „probable variable“
Filled circles are data taken at McDonald Observatory using the telluric lines at 6300 Ang as a wavelength reference
The first extrasolar planet around a normal star: HD 114762 with Msini = 11 MJ discovered by Latham et al. (1989)
51 Peg
Rate of Radial Velocity Planet Discoveries
51 Pegasi b: The Discovery that Shook up the Field
Discovered by Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz, 1995
Period = 4,3 Days
Semi-major axis = 0,05 AU (10 Stellar Radii!)
Mass ~ 0,45 MJupiter
Mass Distribution
Global Properties of Exoplanets:
i decreasing
probability decreasing
Because we only measure msini one could argue that all of these companions
are not planets but low mass stars viewed near i = 0 degrees.
P(i < ) = 1– cos Probability an orbit has an inclination less than
e.g. for m sin i = 0.5 MJup for this to have a true mass of 0.5 Msun sin i would have to be 0.01. This implies = 0.6 deg or P =0.00005: highly unlikely!
Argument against stars #1
This argument was probably valid when you had 10 exoplanets, but with 700 it is highly unlikely that all of them are stellar companions viewed at a low inclination
Argument against stars #2
We have detected approximately 200 transiting planets where we know the inclination. All of these have masses in the planetary regime.
The Brown Dwarf Desert
Mass Distribution
Global Properties of Exoplanets:
Planet: M < 13 MJup → no nuclear burning
Brown Dwarf: 13 MJup < M < ~80 MJup → deuterium burning
Star: M > ~80 MJup → Hydrogen burning
Brown Dwarf Desert: Although there are ~100-200 Brown dwarfs as isolated objects, and several in long period orbits, there is a paucity of brown dwarfs (M= 13–50 MJup) in short (P < few years) as companion to stars
An Oasis in the Brown Dwarf Desert: HD 137510 = HR 5740
The distinction between brown dwarfs and planets is vague. Until now the boundary was taken as ~ 13 MJup where deuterium burning is possible. But this is arbitrary as deuterium burning has little influence on the evolution of the brown dwarf compared to the planet
Brown Dwarfs versus Planets
Bump due to deuterium burning
A better boundary is to use the different distributions between stars and planets:
By this definition the boundary between planets and non-planets is 20 MJup
A note on the naming convention:
Name of the star: 16 Cyg
If it is a binary star add capital letter B, C, D
If it is a planet add small letter: b, c, d
55 CnC b : first planet to 55 CnC
55 CnC c: second planet to 55 CnC
16 Cyg B: fainter component to 16 Cyg binary system
16 Cyg Bb: Planet to 16 Cyg B
The IAU has yet to agree on a rule for the naming of extrasolar planets
Semi-Major Axis Distribution
The lack of long period planets is a selection effect since these take a long time to detect
The short period planets are also a selection effect: they are the easiest to find and now transiting surveys are geared to finding these.
Eccentricity versus Orbital Distance
Note that there are few highly eccentric orbits close into the star. This is due to tidal forces which circularizes the orbits quickly.
Eccentricity distribution
Fall off at high eccentricity may be partially due to an observing bias…
e=0.4 e=0.6 e=0.8
=0
=90
=180
…high eccentricity orbits are hard to detect!
For very eccentric orbits the value of the eccentricity is is often defined by one data point. If you miss the peak you can get the wrong mass!
2 ´´
Eri
Comparison of some eccentric orbit planets to our solar system
At opposition with Earth would be 1/5 diameter of full moon, 12x brighter than Venus
16 Cyg Bb was one of the first highly eccentric planets discovered
Mass versus Orbital Distance
There is a relative lack of massive close-in planets
Classes of planets: 51 Peg Planets: Jupiter mass planets in short period orbits
• ~40% of known extrasolar planets are 51 Peg planets with orbital periods of less than 20 d. This is a selection effect due to:
1. These are easier to find.
2. RV work has concentrated on transiting planets
• 0.5–1% of solar type stars have giant planets in short period orbits
• 5–10% of solar type stars have a giant planet (longer periods)
Classes of planets: 51 Peg Planets
Another short period giant planet
Butler et al. 2004
McArthur et al. 2004
Santos et al. 2004
Msini = 14-20 MEarth
Classes of planets: Hot Neptunes
Note that the scale on the y-axes is a factor of 100 smaller than the previous orbit showing a hot Jupiter
If there are „hot Jupiters“ and „hot Neptunes“ it makes sense that there are „hot Superearths“
Mass = 7.4 ME P = 0.85 d
CoRoT-7b
Hot Superearths were discovered by space-based transit searches
Classes of Planets: The Massive Eccentrics
• Masses between 7–20 MJupiter
• Eccentricities, e > 0.3
• Prototype: HD 114762 discovered in 1989!
m sini = 11 MJup
As of 2011 there were no massive planets in circular orbits
Classes: The Massive Eccentrics
Now there is more, but still relatively few. Ignoring the blue points (close in planets) there are ~ 10 planets with masses > 10 MJup with e < 0.2 and ~20 with e > 0.2
Classes: The Massive Eccentrics
Red: Planets with masses < 4 MJup
Blue: Planets with masses > 4 MJup
Planet-Planet Interactions
Initially you have two giant planets in circular orbits
These interact gravitationally. One is ejected and the remaining planet is in an eccentric orbit
Lin & Ida, 1997, Astrophysical Journal, 477, 781L
• Most stars are found in binary systems• Does binary star formation prevent planet
formation?
• Do planets in binaries have different characteristics?
• What role does the environment play?• Are there circumbinary planets? (see Kepler
Lecture!)
Why should we care about binary stars?
Classes: Planets in Binary Systems
Star a (AU)16 Cyg B 80055 CnC 540
HD 46375 300Boo 155 And 1540
HD 222582 4740HD 195019 3300
Some Planets in known Binary Systems:
There are very few planets in close binaries. The exception is Cep.
For more examples see Mugrauer & Neuhäuser 2009, Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol 494, 373 and references therein
If you look hard enough, many exoplanet host stars in fact have stelar companions
A new stellar companion to the planet hosting star HD 125612
Mugrauer & Neuhäuser 2009
Approximately 17% of the exoplanet hosting stars have stellar companions (Mugrauer & Neuhäuser 2009). Most of these are in wide systems.
The first extra-solar Planet may have been found by Walker et al.
in 1992 in abinary system:
Ca II is a measure of stellar activity (spots)
Cep Ab: A planet that challenges formation theories
2,13 AUa
0.2e
26.2 m/sK
1.76 MJupiterMsini
2.47 YearsPeriod
Planet
18.5 AUa
0,42 ± 0,04e
1.98 ± 0,08 km/sK
~ 0,4 ± 0,1 MSunMsini
56.8 ± 5 YearsPeriod
Binary Cephei
Cephei
Primary star (A)
Secondary Star (B)Planet (b)
Neuhäuser et al. Derive an orbital inclination of AB of 119 degrees. If the binary and planet orbit are in the same plane then the true mass of the planet is 1.8 MJup.
The planet around Cep is difficult to form and on the borderline of being impossible.
Standard planet formation theory: Giant planets form beyond the snowline where the solid core can form. Once the core is formed the protoplanet accretes gas. It then migrates inwards.
In binary systems the companion truncates the disk. In the case of Cep this disk is truncated just at the ice line. No ice line, no solid core, no giant planet to migrate inward. Cep can just be formed, a giant planet in a shorter period orbit would be problems for planet formation theory.
The interesting Case of 16 Cyg B
Effective Temperature: A=5760 K, B=5760 K
Surface gravity (log g): 4.28, 4.35
Log [Fe/H]: A= 0.06 ± 0.05, B=0.02 ± 0.04
16 Cyg B has 6 times less Lithium
These stars are identical and are „solar twins“. 16 Cyg B has a giant planet with 1.7 MJup in a 800 d period
Kozai Mechanism: One Explanation for the high eccentricty of 16 Cyg B
Two stars are in long period orbits around each other.
A planet is in a shorter period orbit around one star.
If the orbit of the planet is inclined, the outer planet can „pump up“ the eccentricity of the planet. Planets can go from circular to eccentric orbits.
This was first investigated by Kozai who showed that satellites in orbit around the Earth can have their orbital eccentricity changed by the gravitational influence of the Moon
Kozai Mechanism: changes the inclination and eccentricity
Planetary Systems: 94 Multiple Systems
The first:
Some Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Star P (d) MJsini a (AU) e
HD 82943 221 0.9 0.7 0.54 444 1.6 1.2 0.41
GL 876 30 0.6 0.1 0.27 61 2.0 0.2 0.10
47 UMa 1095 2.4 2.1 0.06 2594 0.8 3.7 0.00
HD 37124 153 0.9 0.5 0.20 550 1.0 2.5 0.4055 CnC 2.8 0.04 0.04 0.17 14.6 0.8 0.1 0.0 44.3 0.2 0.2 0.34 260 0.14 0.78 0.2 5300 4.3 6.0 0.16Ups And 4.6 0.7 0.06 0.01 241.2 2.1 0.8 0.28 1266 4.6 2.5 0.27HD 108874 395.4 1.36 1.05 0.07
1605.8 1.02 2.68 0.25HD 128311 448.6 2.18 1.1 0.25 919 3.21 1.76 0.17HD 217107 7.1 1.37 0.07 0.13 3150 2.1 4.3 0.55
Star P (d) MJsini a (AU) eHD 74156 51.6 1.5 0.3 0.65 2300 7.5 3.5 0.40
HD 169830 229 2.9 0.8 0.31 2102 4.0 3.6 0.33
HD 160691 9.5 0.04 0.09 0 637 1.7 1.5 0.31
2986 3.1 0.09 0.80
HD 12661 263 2.3 0.8 0.35
1444 1.6 2.6 0.20
HD 168443 58 7.6 0.3 0.53 1770 17.0 2.9 0.20HD 38529 14.31 0.8 0.1 0.28 2207 12.8 3.7 0.33HD 190360 17.1 0.06 0.13 0.01 2891 1.5 3.92 0.36HD 202206 255.9 17.4 0.83 0.44 1383.4 2.4 2.55 0.27HD 11964 37.8 0.11 0.23 0.15
1940 0.7 3.17 0.3
The 5-planet System around 55 CnC
5.77 MJ
Red lines: solar system plane orbits
•0.11 MJ ••
0.17MJ
0.03MJ
0.82MJ
The Planetary System around GJ 581
7.2 ME
5.5 ME
16 ME
Inner planet 1.9 ME
Can we find 4 planets in the RV data for GL 581?
1 = 0.317 cycles/d
2 = 0.186
3 = 0.077
4 = 0.015
Note: for Fourier analysis we deal with frequencies (1/P) and not periods
The Period04 solution:
P1 = 5.38 d, K = 12.7 m/s
P2 = 12.99 d, K = 3.2 m/s
P3 = 83.3 d, K = 2.7 m/s
P4 = 3.15, K = 1.05 m/s
P1 = 5.37 d, K = 12.5 m/s
P2 = 12.93 d, K = 2.63 m/s
P3 = 66.8 d, K = 2.7 m/s
P4 = 3.15, K = 1.85 m/s
=1.53 m/s=1.17 m/s
Almost:
Conclusions: 5.4 d and 12.9 d probably real, 66.8 d period is suspect, 3.15 d may be due to noise and needs confirmation.
A better solution is obtained with 1.4 d instead of 3.15 d, but this is above the Nyquist sampling frequency
Published solution:
Resonant Systems Systems
Star P (d) MJsini a (AU) e
HD 82943 221 0.9 0.7 0.54 444 1.6 1.2 0.41
GL 876 30 0.6 0.1 0.27 61 2.0 0.2 0.10
55 CnC 14.6 0.8 0.1 0.0 44.3 0.2 0.2 0.34
HD 108874 395.4 1.36 1.05 0.07 1605.8 1.02 2.68 0.25
HD 128311 448.6 2.18 1.1 0.25 919 3.21 1.76 0.17
2:1 → Inner planet makes two orbits for every one of the outer planet
→
→
2:1
2:1
→ 3:1
→ 4:1
→ 2:1
•
Eccentricities
Period (days)Red points: SystemsBlue points: single planets
EccentricitiesMass versus Orbital Distance
Red points: SystemsBlue points: single planets
Idea: If you divide the disk mass among several planets, they each have a smaller mass?
The Dependence of Planet Formation on Stellar Mass
2.9 2.0 1.6 1.2
RV
Err
or (
m/s
)
1.05 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.5
Stellar Mass (solar masses)
Main Sequence Stars
Ideal for 3m class tel. Too faint (8m class tel.). Poor precision
The shape of the previous histogram merely reflects the detection bias of the radial velocity method
Exoplanets around low mass stars (Mstar < 0.4 Msun)Programs:
• ESO UVES program (Kürster et al.): 40 stars• HET Program (Endl & Cochran) : 100 stars• Keck Program (Marcy et al.): 200 stars• HARPS Program (Mayor et al.):~200 stars
Results:
• ~15 planets around low mass (M = 0.15-0.4 Msun)
• Giant planets (2) around GJ 876. Giant planets around low mass M dwarfs seem rare• Hot neptunes around several → low mass start tend to have low mass planets
Currently too few planets around M dwarfs to make any real conclusions
GL 876 System
1.9 MJ
0.6 MJ
Inner planet 0.02 MJ
Exoplanets around massive stars
Difficult with the Doppler method because more massive stars have higher effective temperatures and thus few spectral lines. Plus they have high rotation rates. A way around this is to look for planets around giant stars. This will be covered in „Planets around evolved stars“
Result: Only a few planets around early-type, more massive stars, and these are mostly around F-type stars (~ 1.4 solar masses)
Galland et al. 2005
HD 33564
M* = 1.25
msini = 9.1 MJupiter
P = 388 days
e = 0.34
F6 V star
HD 8673
A Planet around an F star from the Tautenburg Program
Mplanet = 14.6 MJup Period = 4.47 Years ecc = 0.72
Frequency (c/d)
Sca
rgle
Pow
erP = 328 days
Msini = 8.5 Mjupiter
e = 0.24
An F4 V star from the Tautenburg Program
M* = 1.4 Mּס
Mstar ~ 1.4 Msun Mstar ~ 1 Msun
Mstar = 0.2-0.5 Msun
Preliminary conclusions: more massive stars have more massive planets with higher frequency. Less massive stars have less massive planets → planet formation is a sensitive function of the
planet mass.
Astronomer‘s
Metals
More Metals !
Even more Metals !!
Planets and the Properties of the Host Stars: The Star-Metallicity Connection
The „Bracket“ [Fe/H]
Take the abundance of heavy elements (Fe for instance)
Ratio it to the solar value
Take the logarithm
e.g. [Fe/H] = –1 → 1/10 the iron abundance of the sun
These are stars with metallicity [Fe/H] ~ +0.3 – +0.5
There is believed to be a connection between metallicity and planet formation. Stars with higher metalicity tend to have a higher frequency of planets. This is often used as evidence in favor of the core accretion theory
Valenti & Fischer
The Planet-Metallicity Connection?
There are several problems with this hypothesis
Endl et al. 2007: HD 155358 two planets and..
…[Fe/H] = –0.68. This certainly muddles the metallicity-planet connection
The Hyades
• Hyades stars have [Fe/H] = 0.2
• According to V&F relationship 10% of the stars should have giant planets,
The Hyades
• Paulson, Cochran & Hatzes surveyed 100 stars in the Hyades
• According to V&H relationship we should have found 10 planets
• We found zero planets!
Something is funny about the Hyades.
False Planets
or
How can you be sure that you have actually discovered a planet?
HD 166435
In 1996 Michel Mayor announced at a conference in Victoria, Canada, the discovery of a new „51 Peg“ planet in a 3.97 d. One problem…
HD 166435 shows the same period in in photometry, color, and activity indicators.
This is not a planet!
What can mimic a planet in Radial Velocity Variations?
1. Spots or stellar surface structure
2. Stellar Oscillations
3. Convection pattern on the surface of the star
Starspots can produce Radial Velocity Variations
Spectral Line distortions in an active star that is rotating rapidly
Rad
ial V
elo
city
(m
/s)
10
-10
0 0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8Rotation Phase
Tools for confirming planets: Photometry
Starspots are much cooler than the photosphere
Light Variations
Color Variations
Relatively easy to measure
Ca II H & K core emission is a measure of magnetic activity:
Active star
Inactive star
Tools for confirming planets: Ca II H&K
HD 166435
Ca II emission measurements
Bisectors can measure the line shapes and tell you about the nature of the RV variations:
What can change bisectors:• Spots• Pulsations • Convection pattern on star
Span
Curvature
Tools for confirming planets: Bisectors
Correlation of bisector span with radial velocity for HD 166435
Spots produce an „anti-correlation“ of Bisector Span versus RV variations:
Activity Effects: Convection
Hot rising cell
Cool sinking lane
•The integrated line profile is distorted.
•The ratio of dark lane to hot cell areas changes with the solar cycle
RV changes can be as large as 10 m/s with an 11 year period
This is a Jupiter!One has to worry even about the nature long period RV variations
The Planet around TW Hya?
Figueira et al. 2010, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 511, 55
A constant star
In the IR the radial velocity variations have 1/3 the amplitude in the optical. This is what expected from spots that have a smaller contrast in the IR
How do you know you have a planet?
1. Is the period of the radial velocity reasonable? Is it the expected rotation period? Can it arise from pulsations?
• E.g. 51 Peg had an expected rotation period of ~30 days. Stellar pulsations at 4 d for a solar type star was never found
2. Do you have Ca II data? Look for correlations with RV period.
3. Get photometry of your object
4. Measure line bisectors
5. And to be double sure, measure the RV in the infrared!
Radial Velocity Planets30 90 1000Period in years →
Red line: Current detection limits
Green line detection limit for a precision of 1 m/s
Summary Radial Velocity Method
Pros:
• Most successful detection method• Gives you a dynamical mass• Distance independent
• Will provide the bulk (~1000) discoveries in the next 10+ years
Summary
Radial Velocity Method
Cons:• Only effective for cool stars.
• Most effective for short (< 10 – 20 yrs) periods
• Only high mass planets (no Earths…yet!)
• Only get projected mass (msin i)
• Other phenomena (pulsations, spots, etc.) can mask as an RV signal. Must be careful in the interpretation
Summary of Exoplanet Properties from RV Studies
• ~5% of normal solar-type stars have giant planets
• ~10% or more of stars with masses ~1.5 Mּס have giant planets that tend to be more massive (more on this later in the course)
• < 1% of the M dwarfs stars (low mass) have giant planets, but may have a large population of neptune-mass planets
→ low mass stars have low mass planets, high mass stars have more planets of higher mass → planet formation may be a steep function of stellar mass
• 0.5–1% of solar type stars have short period giant plants
• Exoplanets have a wide range of orbital eccentricities (most are not in circular orbits)
• Massive planets tend to be in eccentric orbits and have large orbital radii
•Stars with higher metallicity tend to have a higher frequency of planets, but this needs confirmation