On the Inclination and Habitability of the HD 10180 System
- Creators
- Kane, Stephen R.
- Gelino, Dawn M.
Abstract
There are numerous multi-planet systems that have now been detected via a variety of techniques. These systems exhibit a range of both planetary properties and orbital configurations. For those systems without detected planetary transits, a significant unknown factor is the orbital inclination. This produces an uncertainty in the mass of the planets and their related properties, such as atmospheric scale height. Here we investigate the HD 10180 system, which was discovered using the radial velocity technique. We provide a new orbital solution for the system which allows for eccentric orbits for all planets. We show how the inclination of the system affects the mass/radius properties of the planets and how the detection of phase signatures may resolve the inclination ambiguity. We finally evaluate the Habitable Zone properties of the system and show that the g planet spends 100% of an eccentric orbit within the Habitable Zone.
Additional Information
© 2014 American Astronomical Society. Received 2014 March 11; accepted 2014 July 28; published 2014 August 21. The authors thank the anonymous referee, whose comments greatly improved the quality of the paper. This research has made use of the following online resources: the Exoplanet Orbit Database and the Exoplanet Data Explorer at exoplanets.org, the Habitable Zone Gallery at hzgallery.org, and the VizieR catalog access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France.Attached Files
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2014-09-25Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)