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Prospects for detecting decreasing exoplanet frequency with main-sequence age using PLATO

Veras, Dimitri ; Brown, David J. A. ; Mustill, Alexander LU orcid and Pollacco, Don (2015) In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 453(1). p.67-72
Abstract
The space mission PLATO will usher in a new era of exoplanetary science by expanding our current inventory of transiting systems and constraining host star ages, which are currently highly uncertain. This capability might allow PLATO to detect changes in planetary system architecture with time, particularly because planetary scattering due to Lagrange instability may be triggered long after the system was formed. Here, we utilize previously published instability time-scale prescriptions to determine PLATO's capability to detect a trend of decreasing planet frequency with age for systems with equal-mass planets. For two-planet systems, our results demonstrate that PLATO may detect a trend for planet masses which are at least as massive as... (More)
The space mission PLATO will usher in a new era of exoplanetary science by expanding our current inventory of transiting systems and constraining host star ages, which are currently highly uncertain. This capability might allow PLATO to detect changes in planetary system architecture with time, particularly because planetary scattering due to Lagrange instability may be triggered long after the system was formed. Here, we utilize previously published instability time-scale prescriptions to determine PLATO's capability to detect a trend of decreasing planet frequency with age for systems with equal-mass planets. For two-planet systems, our results demonstrate that PLATO may detect a trend for planet masses which are at least as massive as super-Earths. For systems with three or more planets, we link their initial compactness to potentially detectable frequency trends in order to aid future investigations when these populations will be better characterized. (Less)
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techniques: photometric, telescopes, celestial mechanics, planets and, satellites: dynamical evolution and stability, stars: evolution, stars:, solar-type
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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453
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1
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67 - 72
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Oxford University Press
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1365-2966
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10.1093/mnras/stv1615
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Wallenberg Academy Fellow Project
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English
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  author       = {{Veras, Dimitri and Brown, David J. A. and Mustill, Alexander and Pollacco, Don}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
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  publisher    = {{Oxford University Press}},
  series       = {{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}},
  title        = {{Prospects for detecting decreasing exoplanet frequency with main-sequence age using PLATO}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1615}},
  doi          = {{10.1093/mnras/stv1615}},
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