Extrasolar planets: Constraints for planet formation models

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5746, 2005, Pages 251-255

  Santos, Nuno C ^a,c   Benz, Willy ^b   Mayor, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GALAXIES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; GIANT PLANETS; PLANET FORMATION; PLANETARY SYSTEMS;

PLANETS;

PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ACCURACY; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; EXTRASOLAR PLANET; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

EID: 26844435869     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1100210     Document Type: Review

References (70)

1. A. Wolszczan, D. A. Frail, Nature 355, 145 (1992).
2. M. Mayor, D. Queloz, Nature 378, 355 (1995).
3. jup, For an updated list of known exoplanets, see the table available at http://obswww.unige.ch/ Exoplanets. Pulsar planets are probably mostly second-generation planets; hypothetical planets existing by the time of the supernova explosion that gave origin to the pulsar would most probably have disapeared.
4. J. J. Lissauer, Nature 419, 355 (2002).
5. S. S. Vogt, G. W. Marcy, R. P. Butler, K. Apps, Astrophys. J. 536, 902 (2000).
6. M. Mayor et al., The Messenger 114, 20 (2003).
7. J. Pollack et al., Icarus 124, 62 (1996).
8. M. Konacki, G. Torres, S. Jha, D. Sasselov. Nature 421, 507 (2003).
9. G. W. Marcy et al., Astrophys. J. 581, 1375 (2002).
10. J. L. Halbwachs, M. Mayor, S. Udry, Astron. Astrophys. 431, 1129 (2005).
11. B. E. McArthur et al., Astrophys. J. 614, L81 (2004).
12. N. C. Santos et al., Astron. Astrophys. 426, L19 (2004).
13. R. P. Butler et al., Astrophys. J. 617, 580 (2004).
14. S. Udry et al., Astron. Astrophys. 390, 267 (2002).
15. S. V. W. Beckwith, A. I. Sargent, Nature 383, 139 (1996).
16. L. Hartmann, N. Calvet, E. Gullbring, P. D'Alessio, Astrophys. J. 495, 385 (1998).
17. K. E. Haisch, E. A. Lada, C. J. Lada, Astrophys. J. 553, L153 (2001).
18. Y. Alibert, C. Mordasini, W. Benz, C. Winisdoerffer, Astron. Astropnys. 434, 343 (2005).
19. A. P. Boss, Astrophys. J. 567, L149 (2002).
20. A. P. Boss, G. W. Wetherill, N. Haghighipour, Icarus 156, 291 (2002).
21. S. Ida, D. N. C. Lin, Astrophys. J. 604, 388 (2004).
22. Y. Alibert, O. Mousis, C. Mordasini, W. Benz, Astrophys. J. 626, L57 (2005).
23. A. Cumming, G. W. Marcy, R. P. Butler, Astrophys. J. 526, 890 (1999).
24. S. Zucker, T. Mazeh, Astrophys. J. 568, L113 (2002).
25. S. Udry, M. Mayor, N. Santos, Astron. Astrophys. 407, 369 (2003).
26. A. Eggenberger, S. Udry, M. Mayor, Astron. Astrophys. 417, 353 (2004).
27. G. Gonzalez, Astron. Astrophys. 334, 221 (1998).
28. N. C. Santos, G. Israelian, M. Mayor, Astron. Astrophys. 373, 1019 (2001).
29. F. Marzari, S. J. Weidenschilling, Icarus 156, 570 (2002).
30. D. N. C. Lin, P. Bodenheimer, D. C. Richardson, Nature 380, 606 (1996).
31. N. Murray, B. Hansen, M. Holman, S. Tremaine, Science 279, 69 (1998).
32. P. Goldreich, S. Tremaine, Astropnys. J. 241, 425 (1980).
33. D. N. C. Lin, J. Papaloizou, Astrophys. J. 309, 846 (1986).
34. W. Ward, Astrophys. J. 488, L211 (1997).
35. H. Tanaka, T. Takeuchi, W. R. Ward, Astropnys. J. 565, 1257 (2002).
36. D. Trilling et al., Astrophys. J. 500, 428 (1998).
37. Y. Alibert, C. Mordasini, W. Benz, Astron. Astrophys. 417, L25 (2004).
38. B. S. Gaudi, S. Seager, G. Mallen-Ornelas, Astrophys. J. 623, 472 (2005).
39. I. Baraffe et al., Astron. Astrophys. 419, L13 (2004).
40. F. Bouchy et al., Astron. Astrophys. 421, L13 (2004).
41. R. Sari, P. Goldreich, Astrophys. J. 606, L77 (2004).
42. A. Jorissen, M. Mayor, S. Udry, Astron. Astrophys. 379, 992 (2001).
43. J. L. Halbwachs, F. Arenou, M. Mayor, S. Udry, D. Queloz, Astron. Astrophys. 355, 581 (2000).
44. F. Rasio, E. Ford, Science 274, 954 (1996).
45. N. Murray, M. Paskowitz, M. Holman, Astrophys. J. 565, 608 (2002).
46. D. Charbonneau, T. Brown, D. Latham, M. Mayor, Astrophys. J. 529, L45 (2000).
47. C. W. Henry, G. W. Marcy, R. P. Butler, S. S. Vogt, Astrophys. J. 529, L41 (2000).
48. F. Pont et al., Astron. Astrophys. 426, L15 (2004).
49. R. Alonso et al., Astrophys. J. 613, L153 (2004).
50. T. Mazeh, S. Zucker, F. Pont, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 356, 955 (2005).
51. D. Charbonneau, T. M. Brown, R. W. Noyes, R. L. Gilliland, Astrophys. J. 568, 377 (2002).
52. A. Vidal-Madjar et al., Astrophys. J. 604, L69 (2004).
53. N. C. Santos, G. Israelian, M. Mayor, Astron. Astrophys. 415, 1153 (2004).
54. I. N. Reid, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 114, 306 (2002).
55. S. Ida, D. N. C. Lin, Astrophys. J. 616, 567 (2004).
56. S. Vauclair, Astrophys. J. 605, 874 (2004).
57. M. H. Pinsonneault, D. L. DePoy, M. Coffee, Astrophys. J. 556, L59 (2001).
58. A. Sozzetti, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc 354, 1194 (2004).
59. M. Livio, J. E. Pringle, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 346, L42 (2003).
60. D. Saumon et al., Astrophys. J. 460, 993 (1996).
61. For more details, we point the reader to the Science magazine debate available at www.sciencemag.org/ cgi/etetters/291/5508/1487b?ck=nck and to the IAU/UAI position statement at www.ciw.edu/boss/IAU/div3/ wgesp/definition.html
62. G. Chauvin et al., Astron. Astrophys. 425, L29 (2004).
63. D. D. Sasselov, M. Lecar, Astrophys. J. 528, 995 (2000).
64. For more information on these missions, see http:// smsc.cnes.fr/COROT and http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov, respectively.
65. D. Latham, R. Stefanik, T. Mazeh, M. Mayor, G. Burki, Nature 339, 38 (1989).
66. R. P. Butter et al., Astrophys. J. 582, 455 (2003).
67. T. M. Brown, D. Charbonneau, R. L. Gilliland, R. W. Noyes, A. Burrows, Astrophys. J. 552, 699 (2001).
68. G. Torres, M. Konacki, D. D. Sasselov, S. Jha, Astrophys. J. 609, 1071 (2004).
69. C. Moutou, F. Pont, F. Bouchy, M. Mayor, Astron. Astrophys. 424, L31 (2004).
70. We would like to thank the members of the Geneva extrasolar planet search group, D. Naef, A. Eggenberger, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, and S. Udry, as well as G. Israelian, R. Rebolo (from the Institute de Astrofisica de Canarias), Y. Alibert, and C. Mordasini, who have largely contributed to the results presented here. We wish to thank the Swiss National Science Foundation for its continuous support to this project Support from Fundaçao para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, to N.C.S. in the form of a scholarship is gratefully acknowledged.