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Planets Beyond the Solar System:Is our Solar System Unusual or Normal?
Eric JensenSwarthmore CollegeAlumni Weekend, 06/08/2007
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The past
~ 4000 BCE to 1995
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How many planets are there?
• ~ 4000 BCE: 5 (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn)
• ~ 1610: 6 (Earth)• 1781: 7 (Uranus)• 1846: 8 (Neptune)• 1930: 9 (Pluto)• Mid-1995: Still 9!• June 8, 2007: 237
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How many planets are there?• June 8, 2007: 237
– 229 extrasolar planets around 195 stars– 8 planets in our solar system
This and similar graphs are created from data in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, http://exoplanet.eu/
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Known extrasolar planets, Dec. 1997
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Currently known extrasolar planets
Image from the California and Carnegie Planet Search, http://exoplanets.org/
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The present1995 to now
The era of Doppler-shift detections
The giant-planet era
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Techniques for planet discovery
• Detecting stellar “wobbles” caused by planets:
– Doppler shift: measuring velocity changes
– Astrometry: measuring position changes
• Detecting eclipses of starlight by orbiting planets
• Direct imaging of planets
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Techniques for planet discovery
• Detecting stellar “wobbles” caused by planets:
– Doppler shift: measuring velocity changes
– Astrometry: measuring position changes
• Detecting eclipses of starlight by orbiting planets
• Direct imaging of planets
Successful search strategies to date
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The Sun moves as the planets orbit it
Figure from Planet Quest, © 1997 by Ken Croswell
Sun’s diameter
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Detecting the wobble
• The Sun moves at about 12 meters/second (25 mph), mostly due to Jupiter.
• The size of this path is about 0.001 arcsec (less than a millionth of a degree) as seen from 10 parsecs (33 light years) away.
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Doppler Shift:
• Motion toward or away from us shifts the wavelength of light received.
• Side-to-side motion has no effect.
Image from http://threadless.com/
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Example: velocity vs. time for 51 Peg
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Doppler shift surveys
• Current surveys are monitoring ~ 2000 nearby stars.• Results to date show that about 6% of Sun-like stars
surveyed have Jupiter-like planets closer than 5 AU.• These surveys cannot detect Earth-like planets;
Saturns (at Saturn’s distance from the star) are marginal.
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Photometry of planet eclipses, a.k.a. ‘transits’
Image © Hans Deeg
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Artist’s conception of a transit
© 1999 Lynette Cook; used by permission of the artist
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Transits measure a planet’s radius:
We know Rstar, so measuring the dimming gives us Rplanet!€
Planet's areaStar's area
=πRPlanet
2
πRStar2
The amount of light blocked by the planet is
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1999: Transits detected!
Charbonneau et al. 1999
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Hubble Space Telescope data from Brown et al. 2001
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Transits across the star HD 209458• Transits tell us that Rplanet = 1.5 RJupiter
• Doppler shift tells us that Mplanet = 0.7 MJupiter.• Combined, we find that the density is 0.23 g/cm3.
(Earth is 5.5 g/cm3, Jupiter is 1.3 g/cm3)• This is clearly a gaseous, Jupiter-like planet!
Charbonneau et al. 2000
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The era of transiting planet detections is just starting
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Secondary eclipses can reveal planet surface structure
Planet getting brighter as it orbits
Knutson et al., Nature, May 2007
Model map of planet surface brightness
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What have we learned so far?
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Not all stars are created equalAbundance of ‘heavy’ elements matters
Log fraction of elements > helium, relative to Sun
Sun’s abundance
25% of stars observedhave detected planets
<3% of stars observedhave detected planets
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The more ‘heavy’ elements the parent star has, the more likely
it is to host a planet
Plot courtesy of Greg Laughlin
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Planet mass (Jupiter masses)
Low-mass planets are more common
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Planets found so far are Jupiter-like, not rocky
JupiterSaturn
Planets
Stars
Bakos et al. 2007
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Planets have weather!Simulations of HD 185269 b
Temperature Range: 900K to 1760K
Simulations by Jonathan Langton
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Limitations of current techniques for finding planets
They are largely sensitive only to close-in, Jupiter-like planets.
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Limitations of Doppler shift
• Convection on stars’ surfaces, and stellar pulsations, cause radial velocity variations of ~ 1 meter/second.
• Motion of Sun due to Earth is 0.1 meter/second.
Convection on Sun’s surface
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Limitations of Doppler shiftRadial velocity variations from stellar pulsations
Bouchy et al. 2005
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Limitations of photometry• Even the “quietest” stars
have some random variability due to, e.g., sunspots.
• An Earth-mass planet dims a Sun-like star by about 0.005%.
• Only about 1 Earth-like planet in 100 would be oriented so that an eclipse would be visible to us.
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Limitations of photometry:small planets are hard to see!
Data: first planet detected by the COROT mission, May 2007Figure: Greg Laughlin
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Rotation plus active regions can mimic transits
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The future
• Photometric (transit) detection: NASA’s Kepler mission (launch November 2008)
• Astrometric detection? NASA’s Space Interferometer Mission
• Direct imaging? NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finder (launch 2014?)
The era of Earth-like planet detection?
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Are we typical?
• We don’t know yet! But we’ll find out soon...• Current techniques are biased toward close-in,
giant planets• Detecting planets like our giant planets takes a
long time (Jupiter: 12 years; Saturn: 29 years)• Detecting Earth-like planets is hard! But
Kepler mission has a chance in next five years.
Are we alone?
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The universe is infinitely wide.Its vastness hold innumerable atoms,Beyond all count, beyond all possibility of numberFlying along their everlasting ways.So it must be unthinkable thatOur sky and our round world are precious and unique…Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere,Other assemblages of matter making other worlds.Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace…You’ll never find one single thing,Completely different from all the restAlone, apart, unique,Sole product, single specimen of its kind…There are other worlds, more than one race of people,And many kinds of animals. Lucretius, 70 BCE
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The newest dwarf planet:Eris, larger than Pluto
Image from Mike Brown
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Pluto shares many properties with other Kuiper Belt Objects
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