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Determining the internal structure of extrasolar planets, and the phenomenon of retrograde planetary orbits. Rosemary Mardling School of Mathematical Sciences Monash University. double-line eclipsing binary - all parameters known except k 2 (1). Binary stars and apsidal motion.
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Determining the internal structure of extrasolar planets, and the phenomenon of retrograde planetary orbits Rosemary Mardling School of Mathematical Sciences Monash University
double-line eclipsing binary - all parameters known except k2(1) Binary stars and apsidal motion
Binary stars and apsidal motion Claret & Gimenez 1993 This method of determining k2 involves measuring the change in something…
planets and apsidal motion b k2 is now called the LOVE NUMBER (= twice apsidal motion constant) Circularization timescale ~ 108 yr; age ~ 5 Gyr b = 181±46o __ error MUCH bigger than change per year
Tidal evolution of (isolated) binaries and short-period planets • The minimum-energy state of a binary system (or star + planet) is: • circular orbit • rotational frequencies = orbital frequency • spin axes aligned with orbit normal ??Definition of short-period planet -- circularization timescale less than the age of the system
Tidal evolution of short-period planets with companions • Many short-period planets have non-zero eccentricities AND anomolously • large radii (eg. e = 0.05, Rp = 1.4 Jupiter radii) • Bodenheimer, Lin & Mardling (2001) propose that they have undetected • companion planets • Mardling (2007): a fixed-point theory for tidal evolution of short-period • planets with companions (coplanar) - developed to understand inflated planets • Batygin, Bodenheimer & Laughlin (2009) use this to deduce information • about the internal structure of HAT-P-13b • CAN MEASURE k2 DIRECTLY (no need to wait for change in anything)
Fixed-point theory of tidal evolution of planets with companions COPLANAR theory (Mardling 2007)
Fixed-point theory of tidal evolution of planets with companions COPLANAR theory
Fixed-point theory of tidal evolution of planets with companions
Fixed-point theory of tidal evolution of planets with companions all parameters known except
Fixed-point theory of tidal evolution of planets with companions
Fixed-point theory of tidal evolution of planets with companions Real Q-value at least 1000 times larger …. evolution at least times slower HD209458 System evolves to doubly circular state on timescale much longer than age of system
Fixed-point theory of tidal evolution of planets with companions • Equilibrium eccentricity substantial if: • large (there are interesting exceptions) • not too small • large HAT-P-13:
The HAT-P-13 system data from Bakos et al 2009 HATNet transit discovery (CfA) Keck followup spectroscopy KeplerCam followup photometry
The HAT-P-13 system Measured value of (Spitzer will improve data in Dec) Batygin et al: use fixed-point theory to determine and hence This in turn tells us whether or not the planet has a core.
The HAT-P-13 system best fit Given mb, Rb, Teff, find mcore, Ltide from grid of models kb, Qb kb/Ltide, eb(eq)
However… A system with such a high outer eccentricity is highly unlikely to be COPLANAR! The high eccentricity of planet c may have been produced during a scattering event: Once upon a time there existed a planet d…..
Scenario for the origin of the HAT-P-13 system MODEL 1: ed=0.17 ad=2.9 AU, md=12 MJ, Qb = 10 minimum separation 10 ab when ec ~ 0.67
Scenario for the origin of the HAT-P-13 system MODEL 1: ed=0.17
i*c ibc Scenario for the origin of the HAT-P-13 system MODEL 1: ed=0.17
Slightly different initial conditions produce a significantly different system… ed=0.17001 ad=2.9 AU, md=12 MJ, Qb = 10 minimum separation 6 ab when ec ~ 0.8
Scenario 2 for the origin of the HAT-P-13 system ed=0.17001 ad=2.9 AU, md=12 MJ, Qb = 10 minimum separation 6 ab when ec ~ 0.8
Scenarios for the origin of the HAT-P-13 system MODEL 1: ed=0.17 MODEL 2: ed=0.17001
Determining planetary structure in tidally relaxed inclined systems Mardling, in prep Fixed point replaced by limit cycle
Now a forced dynamical system - no fixed point solutions, only limit cycles b is the argument of periastron
It is only possible to determine kbif the mutual inclination is small… Mirror image for retrograde systems ( ib > 130o )
High relative inclinations Kozai oscillations + tidal damping prevent 55o < i<125o
High relative inclinations Kozai oscillations + tidal damping prevent 55o < i<125o Prediction: HAT-P-13b and c will not have a mutual inclination in this range Mutual inclination can be estimated via transit-timing variations (TTVs) (Nesvorny 2009) If stellar obliquity rel to planet b i*b > 55o stellar obliquity rel to planet c i*c > i*b-55o Stellar obliquity measured via the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
retrograde planetary orbits 2009: two transiting exoplanet systems discovered to have retrograde orbits: HAT-P-7b (Hungarian Automated Telescopes : CfA) WASP-17b (Wide Angle Search for Planets: UK consortium)
Transit spectroscopy: the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect > 0 = 0 < 0
Transit spectroscopy: the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect Signature of aligned stellar spin - consistent with planet migration model for short-period planets 11/13 like this HD 209458 Winn et al 2005
Transit spectroscopy: the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect prograde retrograde
(vmax=200 m/s) • = sky-projected stellar obliquity rel to orbit normal of planet b
discovery paper: (Magellan proposal with Bayliss & Sackett)
Scenario for the origin of highly oblique systems with severely inflated planets