期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 722, 期 2, 页码 1547-1555出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1547
关键词
planetary systems; stars: activity
资金
- NASA [NNX08AJ54G]
- NASA [NNX08AJ54G, 100955] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
A small percentage of normal stars harbor giant planets that orbit within a few tenths of an astronomical unit. At such distances, the potential exists for significant tidal and magnetic field interaction resulting in energy dissipation that may manifest as changes within the stellar corona. We examine the X-ray emission of stars hosting planets and find a positive correlation between X-ray luminosity and the projected mass of the most closely orbiting exoplanets. We investigate possible systematics and observational biases that could mimic or confuse this correlation but find no strong evidence for any, especially for planets more massive than similar to 0.1 M-J. Luminosities and upper limits are consistent with the interpretation that there is a lower floor to stellar X-ray emission dependent on close-in planetary mass. Under the hypothesis that this is a consequence of planet-star magnetic field interaction, and energy dissipation, we estimate a possible field strength increase of a factor of similar to 8 between planets of 1 and 10 M-J. Intriguingly, this is consistent with recent geodynamo scaling law predictions. The high-energy photon emission of planet-star systems may therefore provide unique access to the detailed magnetic, and hence geodynamic, properties of exoplanets.
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