High-precision abundances for stars with planets Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Ramirez I.
  2. Melendez J.
  3. Asplund M.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Elemental abundance studies of solar twin stars suggest that the solar chemical composition contains signatures of the formation of terrestrial planets in the solar system, namely small but significant depletions of the refractory elements. To test this hypothesis, we study stars which, compared to solar twins, have less massive convective envelopes (therefore increasing the amplitude of the predicted effect) or are, arguably, more likely to host planets (thus increasing the frequency of signature detections). We measure relative atmospheric parameters and elemental abundances of a late-F type dwarf sample (52 stars) and a sample of metal-rich solar analogs (59 stars). We detect refractory-element depletions with amplitudes up to about 0.15dex. The distribution of depletion amplitudes for stars known to host gas giant planets is not different from that of the rest of stars. The maximum amplitude of depletion increases with effective temperature from 5650K to 5950K, while it appears to be constant for warmer stars (up to 6300K). The depletions observed in solar twin stars have a maximum amplitude that is very similar to that seen here for both of our samples. Gas giant planet formation alone cannot explain the observed distributions of refractory-element depletions, leaving the formation of rocky material as a more likely explanation of our observations. More rocky material is necessary to explain the data of solar twins than metal-rich stars, and less for warm stars. However, the sizes of the stars' convective envelopes at the time of planet formation could be regulating these amplitudes. Our results could be explained if disk lifetimes were shorter in more massive stars, as independent observations indeed seem to suggest.

Keywords
  1. multiple-stars
  2. solar-system-planets
  3. chemical-abundances
  4. effective-temperature
  5. stellar-masses
  6. stellar-ages
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2014A&A...561A...7R
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35610007

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2013-12-17T11:30:06Z
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2013-12-17T11:30:06Z
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