CAUP Cookie Seminar - Orbital and physical properties of planets and their hosts (...) - 15 janeiro 2014

Orbital and physical properties of planets and their hosts: new insights on planet formation and evolution

Vardan Zh. Adibekyan 

CAUP

Resumo

We explore the relations between physical and orbital properties of planets and properties of their host stars to identify the main observable signatures of the formation and evolution processes of planetary systems.
We show that planets orbiting metal-poor stars have longer periods than those in metal-rich systems. Earth-like planets orbiting metal-rich stars always show shorter periods (fewer than 20 days) than those orbiting metal-poor stars. We also found statistically significant evidence that very high mass giants (with a mass higher than 4 MJup) have on average more eccentric orbits than giant planets with lower mass. Our results suggest that the planets in the P-MP diagram are evolving differently because of a mechanism that operates over a wide range of planetary masses. This mechanism is stronger or weaker, depending on the metallicity of the respective system. One possibility is that planets in metal-poor disks form farther out from their central star and/or they form later and do not have time to migrate as far as the planets in metal-rich systems. The trends and dependencies obtained for very high mass planetary systems suggest that planet-disk interaction is a very important and orbit-shaping mechanism for planets in the high-mass domain.

15 de janeiro de 2013 | 13:30

Local

Centro de Astrofísica da U.P.
Rua das Estrelas
4150-762 Porto