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标题：Dynamical Constraints on the HR 8799 Planets with GPI
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作者：Jason J. Wang ; James R. Graham ; Rebekah Dawson 等
期刊名称：The Astronomical journal
印刷版ISSN：0004-6256
电子版ISSN：1538-3881
出版年度：2018
卷号：156
期号：5
页码：1-17
DOI：10.3847/1538-3881/aae150
语种：English
出版社：American Institute of Physics
摘要：The HR 8799 system uniquely harbors four young super-Jupiters whose orbits can provide insights into the system’s dynamical history and constrain the masses of the planets themselves. Using the Gemini Planet Imager, we obtained down to one milliarcsecond precision on the astrometry of these planets. We assessed four-planet orbit models with different levels of constraints and found that assuming the planets are near 1:2:4:8 period commensurabilities, or are coplanar, does not worsen the fit. We added the prior that the planets must have been stable for the age of the system (40 Myr) by running orbit configurations from our posteriors through N-body simulations and varying the masses of the planets. We found that only assuming the planets are both coplanar and near 1:2:4:8 period commensurabilities produces dynamically stable orbits in large quantities. Our posterior of stable coplanar orbits tightly constrains the planets’ orbits, and we discuss implications for the outermost planet b shaping the debris disk. A four-planet resonance lock is not necessary for stability up to now. However, planet pairs d and e, and c and d, are each likely locked in two-body resonances for stability if their component masses are above 6 M Jup and 7M Jup , respectively. Combining the dynamical and luminosity constraints on the masses using hot-start evolutionary models and a system age of 42±5Myr, we found the mass of planet b to be 5.8±0.5 M Jup , and the masses of planets c, d, and e to be M 7.2 0.7 0.6 Jup - + each.
关键词：astrometry;planet–disk interactions;planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability;planets and satellites: gaseous planets;stars: individual (HR 8799);techniques: high angular resolution