Bibcode
Aloisi, Robert; Vanderburg, Andrew; Soares-Furtado, Melinda; Cargile, Phillip; Zhang, Ke; Necib, Lina; Latham, David W.; Quinn, Sam; Pass, Emily; Dattilo, Anne; Mantovan, Giacomo; Amadori, Francesco; Badenas-Agusti, Mariona; Berlind, Perry; Borsa, Francesco; Boschin, Walter; Cabona, Lorenzo; Calkins, Michael L.; Deeg, Hans J.; Dumusque, Xavier; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Eschen, Yoshi Nike Emilia; Filomeno, S.; Geraldía-González, S.; Guerrero, Natalia; Jenkins, Sydney; Lacedelli, Gaia; Morales, Mercedes López-; Leguizamon-Pineda, Paula Manuela; Molinari, Emilio; Morales, Juan Carlos; Mortier, Annelies; Naidu, Rohan; Nardiello, Domenico; Nicholson, Belinda; Pagano, Isabella; Palle, Enric; Pedani, Marco; Pinamonti, Matteo; Maldonado, Jesus; Rainer, Monica; Ribas, Ignasi; Rice, Ken; Stefánsson, GuÐmundur Kári; Turner, Daisy; Wilson, Thomas G.; Zechmeister, Mathias
Referencia bibliográfica
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Fecha de publicación:
11
2025
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Descripción
Observations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed outside the Milky Way. We describe the design and early implementation of a survey to test whether planets also exist orbiting the remnant stars of ancient dwarf galaxies that merged with the Milky Way, and if so, how they differ from their Milky Way counterparts. VOYAGERS (Views Of Yore—Ancient Gaia-enceladus Exoplanet Revealing Survey) is a radial velocity (RV) search using precision spectrographs to discover exoplanets orbiting very low metallicity (−2.8 < [Fe/H] ≤ −0.8) stars born in the dwarf galaxy Enceladus, which merged with the Milky Way galaxy about 10 Gyr ago. A sample of 22 candidates have been screened from a catalog of Gaia─Enceladus─Sausage (GES) members using a combination of stellar properties and reconnaissance observations from the TRES spectrograph. Precision RV measurements have been initiated using the NEID, HARPS-N, and CARMENES spectrographs. We plan to focus most upcoming observations on 10 main sequence targets. Data collection is well underway, with 778 observations on 22 candidates (385 of which are on 10 focus targets), but far from complete. This survey is designed to be sensitive to sub-Neptune mass planets with periods up to hundreds of days. We note that the RV analysis gives mass multiplied by sin(inclination) or the minimum mass for exoplanets. The expected survey yield is three planets, assuming that occurrence rates are similar to those in the Milky Way and taking into account the degeneracy with inclination in our yield models. Our survey is designed to detect at least one exoplanet if occurrence rates are similar to known Milky Way exoplanets or, if no exoplanets are discovered, to rule out a Milky Way-like planet population in GES with 95% confidence level.
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