Circumbinary planets orbiting the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type binary Ny Vir
We report here the tentative discovery of a Jovian planet in orbit around the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type (sdB-type) eclipsing binary NY Vir. By using newly determined eclipse times together with those collected from the literature, we detect that the observed-calculated (O - C) curve of NY Vi...
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Ciencias Astronómicas binaries: close binaries: eclipsing planetary systems stars: individual (NY Vir) subdwarfs |
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Ciencias Astronómicas binaries: close binaries: eclipsing planetary systems stars: individual (NY Vir) subdwarfs Qian, S. B. Zhu, L. Y. Dai, Z. B. Fernández Lajús, Eduardo Xiang, F. Y. He, J. J. Circumbinary planets orbiting the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type binary Ny Vir |
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Ciencias Astronómicas binaries: close binaries: eclipsing planetary systems stars: individual (NY Vir) subdwarfs |
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We report here the tentative discovery of a Jovian planet in orbit around the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type (sdB-type) eclipsing binary NY Vir. By using newly determined eclipse times together with those collected from the literature, we detect that the observed-calculated (O - C) curve of NY Vir shows a small-amplitude cyclic variation with a period of 7.9yr and a semiamplitude of 6.1s, while it undergoes a downward parabolic change (revealing a period decrease at a rate of ). The periodic variation was analyzed for the light-travel-time effect via the presence of a third body. The mass of the tertiary companion was determined to be M 3sin i′ = 2.3( 0.3)M Jupiter when a total mass of 0.60 M ⊙ for NY Vir is adopted. This suggests that it is most probably a giant circumbinary planet orbiting NY Vir at a distance of about 3.3 astronomical units (AU). Since the rate of period decrease cannot be explained by true angular momentum loss caused by gravitational radiation or/and magnetic braking, the observed downward parabolic change in the O - C diagram may be only a part of a long-period (longer than 15years) cyclic variation, which may reveal the presence of another Jovian planet (2.5 M Jupiter) in the system. |
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Qian, S. B. Zhu, L. Y. Dai, Z. B. Fernández Lajús, Eduardo Xiang, F. Y. He, J. J. |
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Qian, S. B. Zhu, L. Y. Dai, Z. B. Fernández Lajús, Eduardo Xiang, F. Y. He, J. J. |
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Qian, S. B. |
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Circumbinary planets orbiting the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type binary Ny Vir |
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Circumbinary planets orbiting the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type binary Ny Vir |
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Circumbinary planets orbiting the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type binary Ny Vir |
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Circumbinary planets orbiting the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type binary Ny Vir |
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Circumbinary planets orbiting the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type binary Ny Vir |
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circumbinary planets orbiting the rapidly pulsating subdwarf b-type binary ny vir |
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2012 |
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http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/84295 |
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