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Search for Extra-Solar Planets Stephen Eikenberry 1 November 2012 AST 2037 1 Planets Around Other Stars • None known prior to 1992 (!) • In 1992, Alex Wolczan discovered 2 (now 3) planets around a neutron star • But those seemed weird • Probably supernova leftover bits • In 1995, Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz discover a planet around 51 Pegasi – how? 2 Kepler’s Laws • Kepler described 3 “laws” of planetary motion (for our solar system) • Kepler did not have a physical basis for the laws (i.e. Newton’s laws of motion) • He just found patterns in the motions of planets and used them to develop 3 guidelines that provided a good matching description • Newton later used his physical laws of motion to show WHY Kepler’s rules for planet motion worked 3 Kepler’s First Law • • • • • Planet orbits are ELLIPSES (what’s that?) The sun/star is at one “focus” of the ellipse Both the planet and the star orbit the center of mass The distance from center to focus is the “eccentricity” Circles are ellipses with eccentricity=0 (both foci at center) 4 Kepler’s Second Law • Planet motion sweeps out equal areas of the ellipse in equal time • Meaning … planet moves faster when it is closer to the star and slower when it is farther away 5 Kepler’s Third Law • • • • a3/P2 = Mtot a = semi-major axis of the ellipse (AU) P = period of the orbit (years) Mtot = total mass of the system (solar masses) 6 Orbital Reflex Motion • For a star/planet system, the planet does most of the moving • Its low mass means it is farthest from the center of mass • Same period, larger distance means higher velocity (what is it for Earth? For Jupiter?) • But you can’t see it (too faint) • Star moves VERY little • High mass, means small distance from COM (what is it for Sun/Earth? Sun/Jupiter?) • But we can SEE the star! 7 Radial Velocity Planet Searches • So … need a speedometer to measure star velocity versus time • To a precision of a few meters per second! • Across distances of many light years!!! • How? Doppler shift of spectral lines 8 Radial Velocity Planet Searches • How-to, with movie • http://static.howstuffworks.com/flash/planet-hunting-radmethod.swf • Take a spectrum with a big telescope and very precise (and STABLE) spectrograph 9 Radial Velocity: Information • Jupiter has biggest reflex velocity effect on the Sun • but this velocity is still small • period is long • Information we get • Period (how?) • Orbit distance (how?) • Eccentricity • Planet mass (note sin i uncertainty) 10 Radial Velocity: Information • Jupiter has biggest reflex velocity effect on the Sun • but this velocity is still small • period is long • Information we get • Period (how?) • Orbit distance (how?) • Eccentricity • Planet mass (note uncertainty!) • Really planet MINIMUM mass! 11 51 Pegasi • In 1995, Mayor & Queloz announce the discovery of an orbital signature with amplitude = 50 m/s in a 4.23day period around star 51 Pegasi • Mass = 0.5 MJUP First extra-solar planet 12 51 Pegasi: Sky View 13 51 Pegasi: Hot Jupiter? • 51 Peg period indicates a VERY small orbital radius (how small?) 14 51 Pegasi: Hot Jupiter? • At that location, expected temperature is VERY high (about 2000K or higher!) • So … Jupiter-like planet, but closer than Mercury “Hot Jupiter” • How do you make something like that???? 15 Planet Bonanza • Geoff Marcy & Paul Butler quickly confirmed 51 Pegasi • They had lots of archival data from searches for Jupiter-type planets (periods >10 years, so they were still “in progress”) • No on even thought to look for short-period MASSIVE planets (why would they be easier?) • Found many “Hot Jupiters” – most extra-solar planets known today are Hot Jupters 16 ES-Planet Population • As of this morning, 228 861 planets are now known to orbit other stars (!!) • All of this has happened in about 10 years – someone currently finds a new planet every couple of weeks or less • These planets are NOT generally like our Solar System objects – WHY? • Next time: properties of Extra-Solar Planets and implications for Life in the Universe 17