Hot Jupiters in Binary Star Systems

Autor: Norman Murray, J. Michael Ramsahai, Yanqin Wu
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: The Astrophysical Journal. 670:820-825
ISSN: 1538-4357
0004-637X
DOI: 10.1086/521996
Popis: Radial velocity surveys find Jupiter mass planets with semi-major axes a less than 0.1 AU around ~1% of solar-type stars; counting planets with $a$ as large as 5 AU, the fraction of stars having planets reaches ~ 10% {Marcy,Butler}. An examination of the distribution of semi-major axes shows that there is a clear excess of planets with orbital periods around 3 or 4 days, corresponding to a~0.03$ AU, with a sharp cutoff at shorter periods (see Figure 1). It is believed that Jupiter mass planets form at large distances from their parent stars; some fraction then migrate in to produce the short period objects. We argue that a significant fraction of the `hot Jupiters' (a
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