General Introduction to STEP

Ding Chen

Quy Nhon, Vietnam April 25, 2014

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Different Techniques to Search for Exoplanets

• Kepler mission, occultation– Jupiter 1%, Earth 10-4

• Radial Vel (doppler shift of stellar spectrum) (ground based)– Hot Jupiter ~50m/s, Earth 0.09m/s

• MIcrolensing (sideways wobble)– Jupiter 500 uas, Earth 0.3 uas

• Direct Detection (IR interferometer or visible large telescope) Block the light of the star, so we can see the light of the planet. – 0.1 arcsec separation, 1010 contrast

• Satellite Specifications / Payloads:– Orbit: Solar-earth L2 Halo– Mass: 500 kg Life time: 5 year– Payloads: TMA Astrometry Telescope

(Primary Aperture: 1.2m, f=50m, FOV: 0.44°)

Highlights Extremely-high-precision(0.5uas)

astrometry space mission Able to detect the habitable planets

at earth criterion Get the actual planetary masses and

the full orbital geometry for all components of the detected planetary system

Overview of STEP

STEP’s niche (fresh search)A. Search for Earth twin: a) Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone around solar type stars. b) population census (eta of Earth) c) 3D orbits and Earth-twin with probability of transits d) multiple habitable planets & dynamical architecture of systems

B. Dynamical evolution of hot and cold Jupiters: a) around high-mass main sequence stars (cf with those around PMS) b) around young solar-type stars (eccentricity & hot Jupiter evolution) c) around rapid rotators & magnetically active stars (close-in planets)

C. Super-Earths (short-period and several Earths mass or size): a) true Mp and period distribution (eta of super-Earths) b) eccentricities & longitudes (liberation vs circulation, transit targets) c) coplanarity (range)

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STEP’s niche (follow-ups of RV)A. Properties of host stars of known planets: a) distance, radius, mass, age, & internal [Fe/H] (MS & PMS stars) b) 3D orbits of binary companions (coplanarity with planets)

B. 3D orbits of known isolated planets: a) sin i and Mp (true mass-period distribution) b) eccentricities, longitudes of nodes (cold Jupiters) c) transit probability (phase of conjunction) d) obliquity (spin measured by stellar oscillation or spots)

C. Multiple siblings of known planets a) are hot Jupiters loners (trend for distant perturbers or companions) b) super Earth siblings of hot Jupiters and eccentric gas giants c) sin i and Mp (kinematic properties) distribution d) eccentricity and longitudes distribution (secular interaction) e) coplanarity (dynamical relaxation & Kozai effect) f) solar system twins (retention of Earths with cold Jupiters)

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STEP’s niche (follow-up of transits)A. Confirmation: a) elimination of false positives (background binaries) b) long-period stellar companions (dynamical origin of JP) c) stellar parameters: distance, luminosity, mass, radius

B. 3D orbits of known individual planets: a) Mp and density (origin of structural diversity) b) eccentricities & longitudes (orientation, precession & Q-value) c) obliquity versus peri apsi distance (tidal capture model of hot Jup) d) tidal distortion (phase lag of tidal bulge)

C. Multiple siblings of known planets a) additional companions (multis & Kozai companions) b) period, mass & density distribution (formation, atmospheric losses)

c) eccentricity, relative longitudes & coplanarity (dynamical origin) d) resonant systems: TTV mass determination & nodal precession

STEP’s niche (follow-ups of direct imaging)

A. Properties of host stars: a) distance, mass, & age (how young) b) 3D velocity (for common proper motion long-period candidates)

B. 3D orbits of known planets: a) orbital parameters (period, semi major axis, eccentricity) b) luminosity (hot versus cold start, recent impact) c) dynamical evolution (eccentricity of young and mature systems) d) Mp determination

C. Multiple siblings of known planets a) orbits: a, e, and coplanarity (dynamical relaxation, GI versus CA) b) signs of dynamical ejection (for freely floating planets) c) shorter-period companions (hot and cold Jupiters)

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What’s the Best Astrometry in Space?

• Ground based astrometry is limited by atmospheric turbulence.• In Space, HST astrometry (with CCD camera) is perhaps the

most accurate. ~100uas. (/D ~40mas, critically sampled, 1/200 pixel)

• With STEP we hope to do 0.5uas (in 1~2 hour) with a 1.2m single-dish telescope. Long focus length(~57m)– 100X higher accuracy than HST – Centroid to 1/50,000 pixel

What are Key Issues in Getting 1uas Astrometry?

• Instrument/Calibration– Calibrate errors in the CCD/SCMOS detectors.

• Without Calibration HST astrometry limited ~1/100 pixel, for STEP with a 1.2m telescope 1/100 pix ~ 1 milliarcsec not 1 uas.

– Calibrate field distortion biases• The original concept proposed for ESA used a prime focus focal

plane. This resulted in an extremely long telescope tube (~40m). STEP uses a much more compact TMA telescope but the additional optics (and possible errors in the design/fabrication of those optics gives rise to field distortion. This has to be calibrated to very high accuracy.

• The most promising approach so far is to use Globular clusters. There are ~200,000 known stars in 47 Tuc imaged by HST. HST folks have used 47 Tuc to calibrate field distortion of HST and achieved accuracy limited by CCD imperfections.

Key Issues Cont• Telescope, optical accuracy and stability

– Imperfections in the telescope affect precision astrometry in two ways• Lower strehl (The image is not good as a diffraction limited image)

– This results in lower SNR when fitting the CCD image to a model PSF. But ultimate as long as the wavefront across the field of view is < /10~/20 the strehl is pretty good and only minor (67% and 90%). 90% is of course better than 67% but the loss of accuracy is not large

– Stability of the telescope is much more important, if we are even somewhat successful in calibrating the field distortion from imperfect optics.

• The use of globular clusters for field distortion calibration means we can calibrate only every few hours (~10~40). The telescope distortion has to be stable to a few uas between calibrations.

• This contrasted with the stability of the CCD focal plane. The CCD focal plane is calibrated with laser metrology and that can be done every ~ minute.

Key Technology in STEP:Calibrating CCD Centroiding Errors!

• Two/three classes of errors– Pixels are not uniformly spaced– QE within a pixel is not uniform– Error in the assumed PSF

• Measuring Pixel positions at the upixel level• Measuring QE variations within a pixel• Nyquist sampling and measuring the PSF.• Multi-color calibration• The best lab results to date, 1e-5 of /D => STEP ~1 uas

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Rocket: CZ-3C

View distance and Objects ~20pc 200 F,G,K stars Expect to detect

1000 exo-planets

1~30 earth-twins(ηE=10%)

Phase A works• We need more people to work on Blind Test,

Simulation, Demonstration, Completeness, Dynamics, Astrometry, Metrology, Distortion Correction, Algorithm , Data Pipeline, Website…

• Ground based observations on some nearby Stars. Target selection, strategy,etc.

• RV, Transit research on the target list.• Complementary/Collaborator missions• Position like International Senior Experts, 1000 Youth

Talents Plan, 100 Talents Program, Staff, Visitor Scientist, Post-doc, PhD, etc. are open!

summary

• Astrometry is a powerful method for planet detection and characterization

• STEP has the potential to discover Earth twins and to establish their frequency.

• STEP can be utilized to extract critical information for planets discovered by other methods

• Synergy with CHEOPS, TESS, WFIRST, JWST

Thank you！