REVISED MASSES AND DENSITIES OF THE PLANETS AROUND KEPLER-10

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作者
Weiss, Lauren M. [1 ]
Rogers, Leslie A. [2 ]
Isaacson, Howard T. [1 ]
Agol, Eric [3 ,4 ]
Marcy, Geoffrey W. [1 ]
Rowe, Jason F. [5 ]
Kipping, David [6 ]
Fulton, Benjamin J. [7 ]
Lissauer, Jack J. [5 ]
Howard, Andrew W. [7 ]
Fabrycky, Daniel [8 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, 501 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] CALTECH, Div Geol & Planetary Sci, 1200 East Calif Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[3] NASA, Astrobiol Inst, Virtual Planetary Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[4] Univ Washington, Dept Astron, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[5] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
[6] Harvard Univ, Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[7] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Inst Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[8] Univ Chicago, Dept Astron & Astrophys, 5640 South Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2016年 / 819卷 / 01期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
planetary systems; planets and satellites: composition; planets and satellites: detection; planets and satellites: fundamental parameters; planets and satellites: terrestrial planets; techniques: radial velocities; SUPER-EARTH; SIZED EXOPLANET; CANDIDATES; ROCKY; SYSTEM; III; FRAMEWORK; EXOMOONS; COROT-7; ORBITS;
D O I
10.3847/0004-637X/819/1/83
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Determining which small exoplanets have stony-iron compositions is necessary for quantifying the occurrence of such planets and for understanding the physics of planet formation. Kepler-10 hosts the stony-iron world Kepler-10b, and also contains what has been reported to be the largest solid silicate-ice planet, Kepler-10c. Using 220 radial velocities (RVs), including 72 precise RVs from Keck-HIRES of which 20 are new from 2014 to 2015, and 17 quarters of Kepler photometry, we obtain the most complete picture of the Kepler-10 system to date. We find that Kepler-10b (R-p = 1.47 R-circle plus) has mass 3.72 +/- 0.42 M-circle plus and density 6.46 +/- 0.73 g cm(-3). Modeling the interior of Kepler-10b as an iron core overlaid with a silicate mantle, we find that the iron core constitutes 0.17 +/- 0.11 of the planet mass. For Kepler-10c (R-p = 2.35 R-circle plus) we measure mass 13.98 +/- 1.79 M-circle plus and density 5.94 +/- 0.76 g cm(-3), significantly lower than the mass computed in Dumusque et al. (17.2 +/- 1.9 M-circle plus). Our mass measurement of Kepler-10c rules out a pure stony-iron composition. Internal compositional modeling reveals that at least 10% of the radius of Kepler-10c is a volatile envelope composed of hydrogen-helium (0.2% of the mass, 16% of the radius) or super-ionic water (28% of the mass, 29% of the radius). However, we note that analysis of only HIRES data yields a higher mass for planet b and a lower mass for planet c than does analysis of the HARPS-N data alone, with the mass estimates for Kepler-10 c being formally inconsistent at the 3 sigma level. Moreover, dividing the data for each instrument into two parts also leads to somewhat inconsistent measurements for the mass of planet c derived from each observatory. Together, this suggests that time-correlated noise is present and that the uncertainties in the masses of the planets (especially planet c) likely exceed our formal estimates. Transit timing variations (TTVs) of Kepler-10c indicate the likely presence of a third planet in the system, KOI-72. X. The TTVs and RVs are consistent with KOI-72. X having an orbital period of 24, 71, or 101 days, and a mass from 1 to 7 M-circle plus.
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