Palomar Observatory
There are some planet-finding projects at Palomar Observatory. These include Sleuth, Single Telescope Extrasolar Planet Survey STEPS , and the Palomar Testbed Interferometer. Sleuth is a 10 cm, robotic telescope dedicated to search for gas-giant planets transiting a star. It nightly monitors about 10000 stars brighter than 12th visual magnitude in a six degree field of view. Sleuth is part of the Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey TrES network that includes Stellar Astrophysics and Research of...
The Global Carbon Cycle
The carbon cycle is the main process for the regulation of the atmospheric composition and climate with respect to increasing insolation. Walker et al. 17 , Berner 18 , Berner et al. 19 , Lasaga et al. 20 , von Bloh et al. 21 , and Franck et al. 22 as well as many others, investigated the so-called carbonate-silicate geochemical cycle between the atmosphere, the ocean, and the continents. The main feedback loop stabilizing the planetary climate is given by the silicate rock weathering. An...
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Fig. 11.6 Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for central stars in the mass range between 0.8 and 2.5 M0. Only the main sequence evolution is considered. Successive dots on the mass-specific branches are separated in time by 1 Gyr. ance window for the biological productivity was again in the range between 0 C and 100 C in order to incorporate thermophiles 57 , but for this study a linear continental growth model curve b in Fig. 11.3 was employed. In principle, it is possible to calculate the HZ for any...
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convenient proxies for this activity are used, such as optical Ca, H and K emission cores, H and Mg II emission, soft x-ray continuous emission, and a large number of UV- to soft x-ray emission lines 25 . A comprehensive discussion of flare stars can be found in the monograph by Gershberg 26 . Besides the long-lasting high-XUV emissions, another crucial parameter is the stellar plasma flow. Important factors in studies regarding the stellar plasma - planetary atmosphere interaction are the...
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showing that the quantity L has in fact a variation of order O m2 . Thus, the conservation of the total angular momentum is better expressed in canonical variables than in astrocentric orbital elements. 1 Perryman, M.A.C. 2000, Extra-solar planets. Rep. Prog. Phys., 63,1209-1272. 2 Ferraz-Mello, S., Michtchenko, T.A., Beauge, C., and Callegari Jr., N. 2005b, Extrasolar Planetary Systems. In Chaos and Stability in Planetary Systems, R. Dvorak, F. Freistetter and R. Kurths, Eds. , Lect. Notes...
Astrocentric Frame
Comparisons Between Coordinate Systems We have seen that, at least formally, the Poincare formalism is simpler and more compact than the Jacobi variables. But how does each perform in practice We have simulated the short-term orbital evolution of a co-planar system formed by a central star with m0 0.32M and two planets with masses m1 20MJup and m2 5MJup. Initial conditions were chosen such that both planets have circular orbits with semi-major axes a1 0.131 AU and a2 0.232 AU and are in...
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Radial Velocity in Astrocentric Elements The observation of a Doppler shift of the spectral lines of a star denounces a change in the velocity of the star with respect to the observer. Since the observer himself is moving with a velocity 30 km s_1, variable in direction, it is necessary to subtract this motion from the observational data and reduce it to the barycenter of the solar system for a description of the necessary operations see Ferraz-Mello et al. 2 . The velocity of an isolated star,...
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where G is the gravitational constant and Ms the stellar mass. The planetary mass is small compared to the stellar mass and has been neglected. The amplitude, A, of the transit signal is proportional to the area on the star occulted by the transiting planet and is, therefore, proportional to the ratio of the stellar and planetary radii, rs and rp, respectively
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The Impact of the Stellar Radiation on the Upper Atmosphere An XUV active star will be responsible for heating and expansion of the upper atmosphere. Under extreme conditions the temperature of the upper atmosphere can be so high that all light atoms overcome their gravitational binding to the planet and escape it in the form of planetary wind. However, a high CO2 content in the atmosphere may prevent conditions for hydrodynamic outflow to develop due to intense IR-cooling. It is generally...