The First Dynamical Mass Measurement in the HR 8799 System
The First Dynamical Mass Measurement in the HR 8799 System
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HR 8799 系统中的首次动态质量测量
DOI:
10.3847/2041-8213/ac0540
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发表时间:
2021
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G. Marleau
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作者:
G. Brandt;Timothy D. Brandt;T. Dupuy;D. Michalik;G. Marleau
HR 8799 hosts four directly imaged giant planets, but none has a mass measured from first principles. We present the first dynamical mass measurement in this planetary system, finding that the innermost planet HR 8799 e has a mass of 9.6−1.8+1.9MJup . This mass results from combining the well-characterized orbits of all four planets with a new astrometric acceleration detection (5σ) from the Gaia EDR3 version of the Hipparcos-Gaia Catalog of Accelerations. We find with 95% confidence that HR 8799 e is below 13 M Jup, the deuterium-fusing mass limit. We derive a hot-start cooling age of 42−16+24 Myr for HR 8799 e that agrees well with its hypothesized membership in the Columba association but is also consistent with an alternative suggested membership in the β Pictoris moving group. We exclude the presence of any additional ≳5 − M Jup planets interior to HR 8799 e with semimajor axes between ≈3–16 au. We provide proper motion anomalies and a matrix equation to solve for the mass of any of the planets of HR 8799 using only mass ratios between the planets.