Spin-orbit connection of exoplanets Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Canto Martins B.L.
  2. Messias Y.S.
  3. Arruda Goncalves M.I.
  4. Leao I.C.,Gomes R.L.
  5. Barraza L.F.
  6. Oliveira Fontinele D.
  7. De Medeiros J.R.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Star-planet interactions play, among other things, a crucial role in planetary orbital configurations by circularizing orbits, aligning the star and planet spin and synchronizing stellar rotation with orbital motions. This is especially true for innermost giant planets, which can be schematized as binary systems with a very large mass ratio. Despite a few examples where spin-orbit synchronization has been obtained, there is no demographic study on synchronous regimes in those systems yet. Here we use a sample of 1055 stars with innermost planet companions to show the existence of three observational loci of star-planet synchronization regimes. Two of them have dominant fractions of subsynchronous and supersynchronous star-planet systems, and a third less populated regime of potentially synchronized systems. No synchronous star-planet system with a period higher than 40 days has been detected yet. This landscape is different from eclipsing binary systems, most of which are synchronized. We suggest that planets in a stable asynchronous spin state belonging to star-planet systems in a supersynchronized regime offer the most favourable conditions for habitability.

Keywords
  1. Multiple stars
  2. Exoplanets
  3. Optical astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2023NatAs...7..900C
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/other/NatAs/7.900
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/NatAs/7.900

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History

2024-03-04T14:42:12Z
Resource record created
2024-03-04T13:42:36Z
Updated
2024-03-04T14:42:12Z
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