Do "isolated" planetary mass objects orbit mirror stars?

被引：23

作者：

Foot, R ^{[1
]}

Ignatiev, AY ^{[1
]}

Volkas, RR ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Melbourne, Sch Phys, Res Ctr High Energy Phys, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2002年 / 17卷 / 02期

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会;

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D O I：

10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00149-9

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We propose that the "isolated" planetary mass objects observed by Zapatero Osorio et al. in the sigma Orionis cluster might actually be in orbit around invisible stellar mass companions such as mirror stars. Mirror matter is expected to exist if parity is an unbroken symmetry of nature. Future observations can test this idea by looking for a periodic Doppler shift in the radiation emitted by the planets. The fact that the observations show an inverse dependence between the abundance of the these objects and their mass may argue in favour of the mirror matter hypothesis. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：195 / 198

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