Limits on the abundance of galactic planets from 5 years of planet observations

被引:54
作者
Albrow, MD
An, J
Beaulieu, JP
Caldwell, JAR
DePoy, DL
Dominik, M
Gaudi, BS
Gould, G
Greenhill, J
Hill, K
Kane, S
Martin, R
Menzies, J
Naber, RM
Pel, JW
Pogge, RW
Pollard, KR
Sackett, PD
Sahu, KC
Vermaak, P
Vreeswijk, PM
Watson, R
Williams, A
机构
[1] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch, New Zealand
[2] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[3] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[4] CNRS, INSU, Inst Astrophys Paris, F-75014 Paris, France
[5] S African Astron Observ, ZA-7935 Cape Town, South Africa
[6] Univ Groningen, Kapteyn Astron Inst, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands
[7] Inst Adv Study, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
[8] Univ Tasmania, Dept Phys, Hobart, Tas 7001, Australia
[9] Perth Observ, Perth, WA 6076, Australia
[10] Univ Amsterdam, Astron Inst Anton Pannekoek, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
gravitational lensing; planetary systems; stars : late-type; stars : low-mass; brown dwarfs; techniques : photometric;
D O I
10.1086/323141
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We search for signatures of planets in 43 intensively monitored microlensing events that were observed between 1995 and 1999. Planets would be expected to cause a short-duration (similar to1 day) deviation on the smooth, symmetric light curve produced by a single lens. We find no such anomalies and infer that less than one-third of the similar to0.3 M. stars that typically comprise the lens population have Jupiter mass companions with semimajor axes in the range of 1.5 AU < a < 4 AU. Since orbital periods of planets at these radii are 3-15 yr, the outer portion of this region is currently difficult to probe with any other technique.
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页码:L113 / L116
页数:4
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