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EXOPLANETS: Prof Michael SMITH
TOPICS COVERED
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Introduction: Review & Status
Measurement : Dynamics, Binaries 2-component systems
Definitions, planets, disks; Detection methods
Populations
Theory of formation
Theory of evolution, Migration/eccentricity
RESOURCES
MOODLE
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Module page:
http://astro.kent.ac.uk/mds/Modules/modules.htm
THE EXOPLANET NEWSLETTER:
Past editions of the Newsletter may be http://exoplanet.open.ac.uk
TABLES AND DATA
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/ExoTables/nphexotbls?dataset=planets
see Table Plotter
AND
http://exoplanets.org
http://exoplanet.eu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet
Watch latest on discovery methods:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uicxfBcQIog
See latest on discoveries:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013arXiv1307.2944A
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu
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DESCRIPTION
We are still in the early days of a revolution in the field of planetary
sciences that was triggered by the discovery of planets around other
stars.
An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar
System.
1. Outside our solar system
2. Nuclear fusion not significant
3. Less than 13/1000 of our Suns mass
= Less than 13 Jupiter masses
Since the first exoplanet discoveries in the 1990s (Wolszczan &
Frail 1992; Mayor & Queloz 1995)
1992: 1 discovered
Now:
1160 planetary systems
1849 planets
471 multiple planet systems
3,359 to be confirmed (Kepler)
http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php .
Showing 661 planetary systems / 838 planets / 125 multiple
planet systems as of 22/09/2012
Showing 750 planetary systems / 986 planets / 168 multiple
planet systems as of 28/09/2013
Showing 1125 planetary systems / 1810 planets / 466
multiple planet systems as of 20/07/14
Showing 1160 planetary systems / 1849 planets / 471
multiple planet systems as of 01/11/14
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Showing 1241 planetary systems / 1958 planets / 488
multiple planet systems as of 27/9/15
Types:
Hot Jupiters
– 300 earths
Neptune-Twins – 17 earths
Super-Earths
Earth-Twins
(since 2011)
Mercury?
– 1/19 earths
NAMING CONVENTION
Names: According to astronomical naming conventions, the official
designation for a body orbiting a star is the star's catalogue number
followed by a letter. The star itself is designated with the letter 'a',
and orbiting bodies by 'b', 'c', etc
TRANSITS: KEPLER MISSION SURVEY
Observational surveys for extrasolar planets probe the diverse
outcomes of planet formation and evolution. These surveys
measure the frequency of planets with different masses, sizes,
orbital characteristics, and host star properties.
Observations of exoplanets have entered a new age with the advent
of the Kepler mission, see: http://kepler.nasa.gov/
Currently the most important class of exoplanets are those that
transit the disk of their parent stars, allowing for a determination
of planetary radii.
Kepler was launched in 2009 and obtained precise photometric
measurements with nearly continuous coverage for four years.
The Kepler mission (Transit Method) continuously monitored one
patch of sky in the Cygnus region, monitoring 160,000 mainsequence stars. Detection of sub-Earth size planets was the
mission's goal, with detection of planets with radii as small at 1
Mercury radius possible around M stars.
http://kepler.nasa.gov/
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Search of Kepler stellar light curves for the characteristic dips in flux
indicative of a planet.
Small planets between the sizes of Earth and Neptune substantially
outnumber Jupiter-sized planets.
Super-Earths with orbital periods less than 100 days are extremely
abundant around Sun-like stars. It is unlikely that these planets
formed at their current locations. Rather, they likely formed at large
distances from the star and subsequently migrated inward.
Kepler-10b is the first confirmed terrestrial planet to have been
discovered outside the Solar System.[3] Discovered after several
months of data collection during the course of the NASA-directed
Kepler Mission, which aims to discover Earth-like planets crossing in
front of their host stars, the planet's discovery was announced on
January 10, 2011. Kepler-10b has a mass between 3.3 and 5.7
Earth masses and a radius of 1.4 Earth radii. However, it lies
extremely close to its star, Kepler-10, and as a result is too hot to
support life.
Read this paper on the remarkable Kepler 11:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...770..131L
The Kepler mission has recently discovered a number of
exoplanetary systems, such as Kepler-11 and Kepler-32, in which
ensembles of several planets are found in very closely packed orbits
(often within a few per cent of an AU of one another).
The Kepler-11 planetary system contains six transiting planets
ranging in size from 1.8 to 4.2 times the radius of Earth. Five of
these planets orbit in a tightly packed configuration with periods
between 10 and 47 days.
CIRCUMBINARY & CIRCUMPRIMARY PLANETS
Kepler-16: We report the detection of a planet whose orbit surrounds a
pair of low-mass stars.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011Sci...333.1602D
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Intensity of starlight from Kepler 11
Kepler 11 b c d e f g
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TOP: Geometry of the Kepler 16b stellar system. Two stars move
about their center of mass, while Kepler 16b orbits both stars.
LOWER: Kepler 16b is Saturn-like, but the view from its cloud tops
could be similar to the view imagined from the planet Tatooine in
the movie Star Wars.
Kepler-47, a system consisting of two planets orbiting around an
eclipsing pair of stars. The inner and outer planets have radii 3.0
and 4.6 times that of Earth, respectively.
The binary star consists of a Sun-like star and a companion
roughly one-third its size, orbiting each other every 7.45 days. With
an orbital period of 49.5 days for the inner planet.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012Sci...337.1511O
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Comparative planetology, which once included only our
Solar System's planets and moons, now includes Earth-twins, subNeptunes to super-Jupiter-mass planets in other solar systems.
Overview of units: mass, distance and constitution
Mass:
Sun
Jupiter 's mass
Earth's mass
Sun
1.989 10 30 kg
MJ = 1.898 1027 kg
ME = 5.974 1024 kg
= 300,000
Jupiter =
Neptune =
Mercury =
ME
300
ME
17.1
ME
0.0553 ME.
Orbit/Distance: 1 astronomical units (AU) = 1.496 108 km, distance
between Earth and Sun
Planet
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Distance from Sun in AU
0.39
0.72
1.0
1.5
5.2
9.5
19.2
30.1
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Constitution
Sun + MVEM
gas
rock
+ asteroids (Ceres) + JSUN
rock
gas
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P
rock/ice
SUN: 99.85% of SS mass, 92% H, 8% He
Density kg/m3
Earth is most dense, Saturn is much lower density…..:
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Earth
5515
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Mercury
5427
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Venus
5243
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Mars
3933
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Moon
3350
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Pluto
1750
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Neptune
1638
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Sun
1408
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Jupiter
1326
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Uranus
1270
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Saturn
687
+ moons, comets, asteroids, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud,
debris, dust
DOPPLER METHOD
DOPPLER SPECTROSCOPY:
METHOD
RADIAL
VELOCITY
Radial velocity method permits a minimum planet mass to be
determined.
HARPS is a vacuum spectrograph designed to measure precise
radial velocities, with the specific goal of searching for exoplanets
in the Southern hemisphere. This high-resolution Echelle
spectrograph (R=115000) is fiber-fed by the ESO 3.6-meter
telescope at La Silla Observatory.
R is the spectral Resolution: R = c / v.
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So R=15,000 is not itself very good.
HOT JUPITERS
Began earnestly in 1995 by definite discovering hot jupiters through
Radial Velocity method; had to be close to satr in order to be
detectable!
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SUPER-EARTHS
Thanks to remarkable progress, radial velocity surveys are now able to detect
terrestrial planets at habitable distance from low-mass stars.
The unexpected diversity of exoplanets includes a growing number of superEarth planets, i.e., exoplanets with masses smaller than 10 Earth masses.
Unlike the larger exoplanets previously found, these smaller planets are more
likely to have similar chemical and mineralogical composition to the Earth.
EARTHS-TWINS
And since 2011 we discuss earth twins …….
The most common class of planetary system detectable today
consists of one or more planets approximately one to three times
Earth’s size orbiting within a fraction of the Earth-Sun distance.
In April 2013, using observations by NASA's Kepler Mission, a team led
by William Borucki, of the agency's Ames Research Center, found five
planets orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star, Kepler-62, 1,200
light years from Earth. These new super-Earths have radii of 1.3, 1.4, 1.6,
and 1.9 times that of Earth. Theoretical modelling of two of these superEarths, Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, suggests both could be solid, either
rocky or rocky with frozen water.
On June 25, 2013 Three “super Earth” planets have been found orbiting a
nearby star at a distance where life in theory could exist, according to a
record-breaking tally announced on Tuesday by the European Southern
Observatory. They are part of a cluster of as many as seven planets that
circle Gliese 667C, one of three stars located a relatively close 22 light
years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpio, it said. The planets orbit
Gliese 667C in the so-called Goldilocks Zone — a distance from the star
at which the temperature is just right for water to exist in liquid form rather
than being stripped away by stellar radiation or locked permanently in ice.
Gliese 581d & Goldilocks.
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In April 2007, a team of 11 European scientists announced the discovery of a
planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like
temperatures.
The planet was discovered by the European Southern Observatory's telescope
in La Silla, Chile, which has a special instrument that splits light to find wobbles
in different wave lengths, HARPS. Those wobbles can reveal the existence of
other worlds.
Gliese 581c. What they revealed is a planet circling the red dwarf star,
Gliese 581. The discovery of the new planet, named Gliese 581c, is sure to fuel
studies of planets circling similar dim stars.
About 80 percent of the stars near Earth are red dwarfs.
Super-earth.
The new planet is about five times heavier than Earth, classifying it as a superearth.
SIZE: Its discoverers aren't certain if it is rocky, like Earth, or if it is a frozen ice
ball with liquid water on the surface. If it is rocky like Earth, which is what the
prevailing theory proposes, it has a diameter about 1 1/2 times bigger than our
planet. If it is an iceball, it would be even bigger.
Gliese 581: M star: 3480K, mass: 0.31 solar masses; 0.29 solar
radii, red dwarf star (approximately 6.12 parsecs from Earth)
Luminosity: 0.013 solar
Hot Neptune Gl 581b 15.7 ME
Super-earth Gl 581c 5.06ME
Super-earth Gl 581d 8.3 ME
0.041 AU
0.073 AU
0.22 AU
Gl 581c: a pleasant 20C (albedo = 0.5 assumed) Greenhouse?
Tidal locking?
Extremophiles. An extremophile is an organism that thrives in and may
even require physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are
detrimental to the majority of life on Earth.
Most known extremophiles are microbes.
HZ – Habitable Zone: life zone", "Comfort Zone", "Green Belt" or
"Goldilocks Zone" (because it's neither too hot nor too cold, but "just right")
However, further research on the potential effects of the planetary
atmosphere casts doubt upon the (extremophile life form) habitability
of Gliese 581c:
Planet “c” receives 30% more energy from its star than Venus from the Sun,
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with an increased radiative forcing caused by the spectral energy distribution of
Gl 581.
This planet is thus unlikely to host liquid water, although its habitability
cannot be positively ruled out by theoretical models due to uncertainties
affecting cloud properties and cloud cover.
Gl 581d:
, Gliese 581d, is a better candidate for habitability.
Currently, Gliese 581d, the third planet of the, appears to be the best example
yet discovered of a possible terrestrial exoplanet which orbits close to the
habitable zone of space surrounding its star.
Although Gliese 581 d orbits outside the theoretical habitable zone of its star,
conditions on the planet may be conducive to supporting life. Scientists
originally believed that Gliese 581 d would be too cold for liquid water to
exist, and therefore could not support life in forms as existing on Earth.
Going by strict terms, it appears to reside outside the "Goldilocks Zone",
but the greenhouse effect may raise the planet's surface temperature to
that which would support liquid water.
Highly reflective clouds covering at least 75% of the day side of the
planet could indeed prevent the water reservoir from being entirely vaporized.
Planet “d”. Irradiation conditions of planet “d” are comparable to those of
early Mars, which is known to have hosted surface liquid water. Thanks to the
greenhouse effect of CO2-ice clouds, also invoked to explain the early Martian
climate, planet “d” might be a better candidate for the first exoplanet known to
be potentially habitable.
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sustaining habitable zone (pHZ) is determined by the limits of biological
productivity on the planetary surface.
List of Habitable
Planets:
 Kepler -62
 Gliese 667c
 Gliese 581d etc………….
http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanetscatalog
. The Earth's temperature would be about -19°C without any greenhouse
gases, and due to a theorized greenhouse effect of Gliese 581 d, research now
suggests that atmospheric conditions on the planet could create temperatures
at which liquid water can exist, and therefore the planet may be capable of
supporting life.
Now: f and g have been discovered but NOT confirmed. Gliese 581
g has attracted attention because it is near the middle of the
habitable zone of its parent star. That means it could sustain liquid
water on its surface and could potentially host life similar to that on
Earth.
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Top view of the GJ 581 system. For reference, the orbits of Earth,
Venus, and Mercury are overlaid as dashed blue, green, and red
lines, respectively.
NUMBERS
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Showing 1160 planetary systems / 1849 planets / 471 multiple planet
systems as of 01/11/14
http://exoplanets.org/
1492 planets with good orbits, 1,516 confirmed
3359 unconfirmed Kepler candidates
Exoplamets are associated with: Fusing stars, Pulsars, Brown
dwarfs. There is currently at least one known planet orbiting a
brown dwarf.
Exoplanets.eu
Showing 1959 planets / 1241 planetary systems / 489 multiple planet
systems
RADIAL VELOCITY: Showing 612 planets / 458 planetary systems / 109
multiple planet systems
TRANSITS:
Showing 1221 planets / 689 planetary systems / 359 multiple planet
systems
Candidates detected by microlensing
Showing 40 planets / 38 planetary systems / 2 multiple planet systems
Candidates detected by imaging
Showing 61 planets / 56 planetary systems / 3 multiple planet systems
Candidates detected by timing
Showing 19 planets / 14 planetary systems / 4 multiple planet systems
+ some cluster and free floating?, plenty of candidates, retractions, ……
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