| Issue |
A&A
Volume 551, March 2013
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | A112 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220707 | |
| Published online | 04 March 2013 | |
On the functional form of the metallicity-giant planet correlation⋆
1
Centro de Astrofísica, Universidade do Porto,
Rua das Estrelas,
4150-762
Porto,
Portugal
e-mail:
amortier@astro.up.pt
2 Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências,
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
3
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
4
Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La
Laguna, 38206, La
Laguna, Tenerife,
Spain
5
Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève,
51 Ch. des Maillettes,
1290
Sauverny,
Switzerland
Received: 8 November 2012
Accepted: 28 January 2013
Context. It is generally accepted that the presence of a giant planet is strongly dependent on the stellar metallicity. A stellar mass dependence has also been investigated, but this dependence does not seem as strong as the metallicity dependence. Even for metallicity, however, the exact form of the correlation has not been established.
Aims. In this paper, we test several scenarios for describing the frequency of giant planets as a function of its host parameters. We perform this test on two volume-limited samples (from CORALIE and HARPS).
Methods. By using a Bayesian analysis, we quantitatively compared the different scenarios.
Results. We confirm that giant planet frequency is indeed a function of metallicity. However, there is no statistical difference between a constant or an exponential function for stars with subsolar metallicities contrary to what has been previously stated in the literature. The dependence on stellar mass could neither be confirmed nor be discarded.
Key words: methods: statistical / planet-star interactions / stars: abundances
Full Tables 1 and 2 are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/551/A112
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