期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 401, 期 1, 页码 L34-L38出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00780.x
关键词
binaries: close; binaries: eclipsing; stars: individual: QS Vir; planetary systems; white dwarf
资金
- Chinese Natural Science Foundation [10973037, 10903026, 10778718]
- National Key Fundamental Research Project [2007CB815406]
- Yunnan Natural Science Foundation [2008CD157]
- Special Foundation of President and West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Detections of Jupiter-like giant planets in orbit around short-period white dwarf binaries should provide insight into the formation and evolution of circumbinary planets (planets orbiting both components of short-period binaries), as well as into the ultimate fate of planets and the late evolutionary stage of binary stars (e.g. the evolution of the common envelope). However, to date no planets have been detected as companions to such close binaries. Here, we report the discovery of a giant planet orbiting the only known hibernating cataclysmic variable (CV), QS Vir, with a period of 7.86 yr. We analysed the variations of the orbital period of the eclipsing white dwarf-red dwarf binary, and a very small-amplitude cyclic change is found to be superimposed on a long-term period decrease. The period oscillation has the smallest amplitude among close binary stars and can be plausibly interpreted as the light-travel time effect via the presence of a third body. We found that the tertiary component is a giant planet with a mass of similar to 6.4 M(Jupiter) at a distance of similar to 4.2 astronomical units (au) from the binary. The continuous decrease is explained as angular momentum loss via magnetic braking which is driving the evolution of the hibernating CV into a normal cataclysmic binary.
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