NGTS-19b:一颗位于17天偏心轨道的大质量凌星棕矮星
地球与行星天体物理
2021-06-09 v2 太阳与恒星天体物理
摘要
我们报告NGTS-19b的发现,这是由下一代凌星巡天(NGTS)发现的一颗大质量凌星棕矮星。我们利用南非天文台的后续测光、第11扇区TESS数据以及CORALIE光谱仪的视向速度测量精确刻画该系统。我们发现NGTS-19b是一颗K型星的棕矮星伴星,质量为 M,半径为 R。该系统周期较长,为17.84天,且偏心度较高,为。棕矮星的质量和半径意味着年龄为 Gyr,但这与宿主恒星SED确定的年龄不一致,表明该棕矮星可能被膨胀。鉴于其大质量和相对较低的辐照水平使其更难被膨胀,这一现象不同寻常。NGTS-19b增加了凌星主序星的棕矮星这一小而增长中的数目,并且随着我们开始填充所谓的棕矮星荒漠,它是一个有价值的补充。
引用
@article{arxiv.2105.08574,
title = {NGTS-19b : A high mass transiting brown dwarf in a 17-day eccentric orbit},
author = {Jack S. Acton and Michael R. Goad and Matthew R. Burleigh and Sarah L. Casewell and Hannes Breytenbach and Louise D. Nielsen and Gareth Smith and David R. Anderson and Matthew P. Battley and Daniel Bayliss and François Bouchy and Edward M. Bryant and Szilárd Csizmadia and Phillip Eigmüller and Samuel Gill and Edward Gillen and Nolan Grieves and Maximilian N. Günther and Beth A. Henderson and Simon T. Hodgkin and James A. G. Jackman and James S. Jenkins and Monika Lendl and James McCormac and Maximiliano Moyano and Richard P. Nelson and Ramotholo R. Sefako and Alexis M. S. Smith and Manu Stalport and Jessymol K. Thomas and Rosanna H. Tilbrook and Stéphane Udry and Richard G. West and Peter J. Wheatley and Hannah L. Worters and Jose I. Vines and Douglas R. Alves},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.08574},
year = {2021}
}
备注
Accepted for Publication in MNRAS