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标题：Four Sub-Saturns with Dissimilar Densities: Windows into Planetary Cores and Envelopes
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作者：Erik A. Petigura ; Evan Sinukoff ; Eric D. Lopez 等
期刊名称：The Astronomical journal
印刷版ISSN：0004-6256
电子版ISSN：1538-3881
出版年度：2017
卷号：153
期号：4
DOI：10.3847/1538-3881/aa5ea5
语种：English
出版社：American Institute of Physics
摘要：We present results from a Keck/HIRES radial velocity campaign to study four sub-Saturn-sized planets, K2-27b, K2-32b, K2-39b, and K2-108b, with the goal of understanding their masses, orbits, and heavy-element enrichment. The planets have similar sizes ( = 4.5–5.5 ), but have dissimilar masses ( = 16–60 ), implying a diversity in their core and envelope masses. K2-32b is the least massive () and orbits in close proximity to two sub-Neptunes near a 3:2:1 period commensurability. K2-27b and K2-39b are significantly more massive at and , respectively, and show no signs of additional planets. K2-108b is the most massive at , implying a large reservoir of heavy elements of about ≈50 . Sub-Saturns as a population have a large diversity in planet mass at a given size. They exhibit remarkably little correlation between mass and size; sub-Saturns range from ≈6–60 , regardless of size. We find a strong correlation between planet mass and host star metallicity, suggesting that metal-rich disks form more massive planet cores. The most massive sub-Saturns tend to lack detected companions and have moderately eccentric orbits, perhaps as a result of a previous epoch of dynamical instability. Finally, we observe only a weak correlation between the planet envelope fraction and present-day equilibrium temperature, suggesting that photo-evaporation does not play a dominant role in determining the amount of gas sub-Saturns accrete from their protoplanetary disks.
关键词：planets and satellites: composition;planets and satellites: detection;planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability;planets and satellites: formation;planets and satellites: gaseous planets;planets and satellites: interiors Supporting material: machine-readable table