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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 2nd May 2014, 9:58 am | |
| Also from a read-through of the paper, it looks like at least some superjovian planets might spin very quickly indeed: - Quote :
- Over the next hundreds of millions of years the planet is expected to cool down and shrink to the size of Jupiter. If its angular moment is preserved during this process, the planet should spin up to Vspin ~ 40 km sec-1, depending on possible changes in its internal structure, decreasing its length of day to ~3 hours.
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 17th July 2014, 9:08 pm | |
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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 18th July 2014, 2:31 am | |
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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 11th September 2014, 5:20 pm | |
| Kong et al. (2014) "The shape, internal structure and gravity of the fast spinner β Pictoris b" http://mnrasl.oxfordjournals.org/content/445/1/L26For masses 6–16 M J, the eccentricity of the oblate spheroid ε ranges from 0.36928–0.23398, which correspond to oblateness values 0.071–0.028. Assuming it shrinks and spins up to 1 Jupiter radius and 3 hour rotation, the range of ε ends up as 0.45552–0.29422, which gives oblateness values of 0.110–0.044. For comparison, Saturn has an oblateness 0.098. | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
Number of posts : 4319 Location : Earth Registration date : 2008-04-06
| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 22nd October 2014, 1:27 pm | |
| Two Families of Comets Found Around Nearby Star http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1432/Link to paper. http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1432/eso1432a.pdf - Quote :
- The HARPS instrument at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has been used to make the most complete census of comets around another star ever created. A French team of astronomers has studied nearly 500 individual comets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris and has discovered that they belong to two distinct families of exocomets: old exocomets that have made multiple passages near the star, and younger exocomets that probably came from the recent breakup of one or more larger objects. The new results will appear in the journal Nature on 23 October 2014.
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- Moreover, the orbits of these comets (eccentricity and orientation) are exactly as predicted for comets trapped in orbital resonance with a massive planet. The properties of the comets of the first family show that this planet in resonance must be at about 700 million kilometres from the star — close to where the planet Beta Pictoris b was discovered.
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 22nd October 2014, 4:35 pm | |
| Nice. I seem to recall that there was previous work that suggested that there were two famillies of exocomets in the system, which was indeed used as a prediction of the presence of a planet before the discovery of Beta Pic b. Good to see it confirmed! | |
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Led_Zep SuperJovian
Number of posts : 721 Location : France Registration date : 2011-09-09
| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 19th February 2015, 5:15 pm | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 22nd August 2015, 1:52 am | |
| β PICTORIS’ INNER DISK IN POLARIZED LIGHT AND NEW ORBITAL PARAMETERS FOR β PICTORIS b http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04787They find a transit probability of ~0.06%, but note that it appears certain now that the planet's Hill sphere at least will transit, similar to the situation at J1407. _________________ Caps Lock: Cruise control for 'Cool'!
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Led_Zep SuperJovian
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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 8th July 2016, 1:30 pm | |
| Pity, it was so close. But nevertheless a chance to see if there's something like the J1407 ring. | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 19th July 2016, 8:45 pm | |
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Led_Zep SuperJovian
Number of posts : 721 Location : France Registration date : 2011-09-09
| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 1st March 2017, 10:38 pm | |
| https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.000111 to 2.4 micron Near-IR spectrum of the Giant Planet β Pictoris b obtained with the Gemini Planet ImagerUsing the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) located at Gemini South, we measured the near-infrared (1.0-2.4 micron) spectrum of the planetary companion to the nearby, young star β Pictoris. We compare the spectrum obtained with currently published model grids and with known substellar objects and present the best matching models as well as the best matching observed objects. Comparing the empirical measurement of the bolometric luminosity to evolutionary models, we find a mass of 12.9±0.2 M Jup , an effective temperature of 1724±15 K, a radius of 1.46±0.01 R Jup , and a surface gravity of logg=4.18±0.01 [dex] (cgs). The stated uncertainties are statistical errors only, and do not incorporate any uncertainty on the evolutionary models. Using atmospheric models, we find an effective temperature of 1700−1800 K and a surface gravity of logg=3.5 -4.0 [dex] depending upon model. These values agree well with other publications and with "hot-start" predictions from planetary evolution models. Further, we find that the spectrum of β Pic b best matches a low-surface gravity L2± 1 brown dwarf. Finally comparing the spectrum to field brown dwarfs we find the the spectrum best matches 2MASS J04062677-381210 and 2MASS J03552337+1133437 | |
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Led_Zep SuperJovian
Number of posts : 721 Location : France Registration date : 2011-09-09
| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 25th March 2017, 7:04 pm | |
| Automatic translation of an article in french : https://lagrange.oca.eu/fr/accueil-astepObservation of β Pictoris since Antarctica: the adventure begins!
The first observations the star Beta Pictoris and planet from the Antarctic Concordia station continuously come to start. With the arrival of the polar night in Antarctica, the star β Pic with ASTEP telescope observations come from start. It is observing a system of a very young star and his giant planet, to try to discover moons or rings and to the past, to solve a mystery: the change in brightness of the observed star in 1981 was due to the passage of the planet in front of its star? For the first time, as part of an international collaboration, a telescope will point this famous star continuously from March until September 2017. This is possible because this automatic telescope is located in the middle of the Antarctic continent, and it boasts a nearly continuous night during the austral winter. The first light of β Pic curves are very promising. The star β Pic is famous: it's the first Star for which one could imagine a Protoplanetary disc in 1984. It is also around this star are deduced for the first time the presence of "exocometes". In 2008, a planet was discovered about 8 astronomical units from its star (roughly the distance from Saturn to the Sun). The study of this planet, β Pic b, and the disc of dust around the star, is a unique source of information to understand these very young systems and the formation of the planets. Follow-up imaging of the orbit of beta Pic b shows that this one will pass in front of its star (or almost) in summer 2017. This opportunity will never happen before 18 or 36 years. Detection of a transit (the planet exactly passing the star) would be a revolution in the field as it would for the first time to have all the physical characteristics of an Exoplanet that can give an image directly. It would also observe a disk around the star and the moons, rings, which has never been done! Photometric variations will be recorded. Perhaps to prove - they similar to strange photometric variations observed in 1981, and attributed in the 1990s either a planet, or comets. However, between April and September 2017, only the telescopes in Antarctica are well-placed to observe β Pic. Thanks to the support of the french Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor (SJ), the University Côte d'Azur, the Observatory of the Cote d'Azur and the Lagrange laboratory have an automated telescope capable of observing this star continuously since the Antarctic Concordia station. This station managed by Italian and french Polar institutes is a permanent basis: it is inhabited also in winter, which allows monitoring of the instruments. ASTEP is a telescope of 40cm in diameter. He is able to observe in the harsh conditions of Antarctica: who have reached - 65 ° C and temperatures that can go down to-80 ° C in the heart of the austral winter. This telescope, which ran successfully from 2010 to 2014 has been reinstalled at Concordia end of 2016, motivated by an international collaboration including the University of Grenoble and the University of California, Berkeley (USA). The first curves of light come from us. They are of excellent quality. Although we have only a few hours of observations, we can already confirm that β Pic is a variable star and study its oscillations. His continuous monitoring will be instructive. The adventure begins! First light from the star β Pic curves obtained by the telescope ASTEP Since the Antarctic on 5, 6 and 7 March 2017. Curves clearly show the oscillations of the star | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
Number of posts : 4319 Location : Earth Registration date : 2008-04-06
| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 5th September 2017, 8:40 pm | |
| bRing: An observatory dedicated to monitoring the β Pictoris b Hill sphere transit https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01325 - Quote :
- Aims. We describe the design and first light observations from the β Pictoris b Ring ("bRing") project. The primary goal is to detect photometric variability from the young star β Pictoris due to circumplanetary material surrounding the directly imaged young extrasolar gas giant planet \bpb. Methods. Over a nine month period centred on September 2017, the Hill sphere of the planet will cross in front of the star, providing a unique opportunity to directly probe the circumplanetary environment of a directly imaged planet through photometric and spectroscopic variations. We have built and installed the first of two bRing monitoring stations (one in South Africa and the other in Australia) that will measure the flux of β Pictoris, with a photometric precision of 0.5% over 5 minutes. Each station uses two wide field cameras to cover the declination of the star at all elevations. Detection of photometric fluctuations will trigger spectroscopic observations with large aperture telescopes in order to determine the gas and dust composition in a system at the end of the planet-forming era. Results. The first three months of operation demonstrate that bRing can obtain better than 0.5\% photometry on β Pictoris in five minutes and is sensitive to nightly trends enabling the detection of any transiting material within the Hill sphere of the exoplanet.
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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 9th May 2018, 3:10 pm | |
| (currently paywalled) Lagrange et al. "Full exploration of the giant planet population around β Pictoris" https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/04/aa30436-17/aa30436-17.htmlFrom radial velocity and imaging, no additional planets more massive than 3 Jupiters inside 1 AU or outside 10 AU. 15 Jupiter mass limit elsewhere in the disc, except between 3 and 5 AU where the limit is 30 Jupiter masses (90% confidence level). | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 14th May 2018, 8:46 pm | |
| Transit search. Jupiter-sized+ planets ruled out close to the star in coplanar orbits with Bet Pic b. A search for transiting planets in the β Pictoris system https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05240 - Quote :
- The bright (V=3.86) star β Pictoris is a nearby young star with a debris disk and gas giant exoplanet, β Pictoris b, in a multi-decade orbit around it. Both the planet's orbit and disk are almost edge-on to our line of sight. We carry out a search for any transiting planets in the β Pictoris system with orbits of less than 30 days that are coplanar with the planet β Pictoris b. We search for a planetary transit using data from the BRITE-Constellation nanosatellite BRITE-Heweliusz, analyzing the photometry using the Box-Fitting Least Squares Algorithm (BLS). The sensitivity of the method is verified by injection of artificial planetary transit signals using the Bad-Ass Transit Model cAlculatioN (BATMAN) code. No planet was found in the BRITE-Constellation data set. We rule out planets larger than 0.6 RJ for periods of less than 5 days, larger than 0.75 RJ for periods of less than 10 days, and larger than 1.05 RJ for periods of less than 20 days.
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Led_Zep SuperJovian
Number of posts : 721 Location : France Registration date : 2011-09-09
| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 20th August 2018, 11:46 am | |
| https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0561-6The mass of the young planet Beta Pictoris b through the astrometric motion of its host starThe young massive Jupiters discovered with high-contrast imaging1,2,3,4 provide a unique opportunity to study the formation and early evolution of gas giant planets. A key question is to what extent gravitational energy from accreted gas contributes to the internal energy of a newly formed planet. This has led to a range of formation scenarios from ‘cold’ to ‘hot’ start models5,6,7,8. For a planet of a given mass, these initial conditions govern its subsequent evolution in luminosity and radius. Except for upper limits from radial velocity studies9,10, disk modelling11 and dynamical instability arguments12, no mass measurements of young planets are yet available to distinguish between these different models. Here, we report on the detection of the astrometric motion of Beta Pictoris, the ~21-Myr-old host star of an archetypical directly imaged gas giant planet, around the system’s centre of mass. Subtracting the highly accurate Hipparcos13,14 and Gaia15,16 proper motion from the internal 3 yr Hipparcos astrometric data reveals the reflex motion of the star, giving a model-independent planet mass of 11 ± 2 Jupiter masses. This is consistent with scenarios in which the planet is formed in a high-entropy state as assumed by hot start models. The ongoing data collection by Gaia will soon lead to mass measurements of other young gas giants and form a great asset to further constrain early-evolution scenarios. | |
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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 20th August 2018, 12:31 pm | |
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Led_Zep SuperJovian
Number of posts : 721 Location : France Registration date : 2011-09-09
| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 20th August 2018, 2:38 pm | |
| ESA link : http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Infant_exoplanet_weighed_by_Hipparcos_and_Gaia/(print)Infant exoplanet weighed by Hipparcos and Gaia“…Gaia will find thousands of exoplanets, that’s still on our to-do list,” says Timo Prusti, ESA’s Gaia project scientist. “The reason that the exoplanets can be expected only late in the mission is the fact that to measure the tiny wobble that the exoplanets are causing, we need to trace the position of stars for several years.” Combining the Gaia measurements with those from ESA’s Hipparcos mission, which observed Beta Pictoris 111 times between 1990 and 1993, enabled Ignas and Anthony to get their result much faster. This led to the first successful estimate of a young planet’s mass using astrometric measurements… » | |
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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 20th August 2018, 2:44 pm | |
| Would be interesting to see if this approach would also give useful constraints on 51 Eridani b. | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 20th August 2018, 3:18 pm | |
| That's a really cool finding. I am a bit surprised that Gaia data was useful as I thought stars as bright as β Pic were beyond Gaia's usefulness. It's incredible how far our understanding of this system has come in the ~ten years since the planet was first reported. _________________ Caps Lock: Cruise control for 'Cool'!
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 20th August 2018, 8:55 pm | |
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Led_Zep SuperJovian
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 22nd September 2018, 5:25 am | |
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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 22nd September 2018, 2:33 pm | |
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- The data exclude that the planet could have been responsible for the 1981 photometric event.
Well that's a bit disappointing, though I wonder what results have come out of observations of the Hill sphere transit. Maybe the 1981 event will turn out to be a still-to-be-detected Beta Pictoris c? Or just some kind of systematic error. | |
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| Subject: Re: Possible image of an exoplanet next to Beta Pictoris 24th September 2018, 9:25 pm | |
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