Bibcode
Malavolta, L.; Nascimbeni, V.; Piotto, G.; Quinn, S. N.; Borsato, L.; Granata, V.; Bonomo, A. S.; Marzari, F.; Bedin, L. R.; Rainer, M.; Desidera, S.; Lanza, A. F.; Poretti, E.; Sozzetti, A.; White, R. J.; Latham, D. W.; Cunial, A.; Libralato, M.; Nardiello, D.; Boccato, C.; Claudi, R. U.; Cosentino, R.; Covino, E.; Gratton, R.; Maggio, A.; Micela, G.; Molinari, E.; Pagano, I.; Smareglia, R.; Affer, L.; Andreuzzi, G.; Aparicio, A.; Benatti, S.; Bignamini, A.; Borsa, F.; Damasso, M.; Di Fabrizio, L.; Harutyunyan, A.; Esposito, M.; Fiorenzano, A. F. M.; Gandolfi, D.; Giacobbe, P.; González Hernández, J. I.; Maldonado, J.; Masiero, S.; Molinaro, M.; Pedani, M.; Scandariato, G.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 588, id.A118, 12 pp.
Fecha de publicación:
4
2016
Revista
Número de citas
91
Número de citas referidas
85
Descripción
Context. Open cluster (OC) stars share the same age and metallicity,
and, in general, their age and mass can be estimated with higher
precision than for field stars. For this reason, OCs are considered an
importantlaboratory to study the relation between the physical
properties of the planets and those of their host stars, and the
evolution of planetary systems. However, only a handful of planets have
been discovered around OC main-sequence stars so far, all of them in
single-planet systems. For this reason we started an observational
campaign within the GAPS collaboration to search for and characterize
planets in OCs Aims: We monitored the Praesepe member Pr 0211 to
improve our knowledge of the eccentricity of the hot Jupiter (HJ) that
is already known to orbit this star and search for additional
intermediate-mass planets. An eccentric orbit for the HJ would support a
planet-planet scattering process rather than a disk-driven migration
after its formation. Methods: From 2012 to 2015, we collected 70
radial velocity (RV) measurements with HARPS-N and 36 with TRES of Pr
0211. Simultaneous photometric observations were carried out with the
robotic STELLA telescope to characterize the stellar activity. We
discovered a long-term trend in the RV residuals that we show as being
due to the presence of a second, massive, outer planet. Orbital
parameters for the two planets are derived by simultaneously fitting RVs
and photometric light curves, with the activity signal modelled as a
series of sinusoids at the rotational period of the star and its
harmonics. Results: We confirm that Pr 0211b has a nearly
circular orbit (e = 0.02 ± 0.01), with an improvement of a factor
two with respect to the previous determination of its eccentricity, and
estimate that Pr 0211c has a mass Mp sin i = 7.9 ± 0.2
MJ, a period P> 3500 days and a very eccentric orbit
(e> 0.60). This kind of peculiar system may be typical of open
clusters if the planet-planet scattering phase, which lead to the
formation of HJs, is caused by stellar encounters rather than by
unstable primordial orbits. Pr 0211 is the first multi-planet system
discovered around an OC star.
Based on data obtained with (i) the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Italian
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), operated on the island of La Palma
by the INAF - Fundacion Galileo Galilei (Spanish Observatory of Roque de
los Muchachos of the IAC); (ii) the Tillinghast Reflector Echelle
Spectrograph (TRES) on the 1.5-m Tillinghast telescope, located at the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Fred L. Whipple Observatory on
Mt. Hopkins in Arizona; (iii) the STELLA robotic telescopes in Tenerife,
an AIP facility jointly operated by AIP and IAC. Full Tables 1, 3-5 are
only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr
(ftp://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/588/A118