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A&A
Volume 599, March 2017
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| Article Number | A96 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629434 | |
| Published online | 06 March 2017 | |
CNO behaviour in planet-harbouring stars
II. Carbon abundances in stars with and without planets using the CH band⋆,⋆⋆
1 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
e-mail: lsuarez@iac.es
2 Depto. Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
3 Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal
4 Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Cîencias, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Received: 29 July 2016
Accepted: 29 November 2016
Context. Carbon, oxygen and nitrogen (CNO) are key elements in stellar formation and evolution, and their abundances should also have a significant impact on planetary formation and evolution.
Aims. We aim to present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of 1110 solar-type stars, 143 of which are known to have planetary companions. We have determined the carbon abundances of these stars and investigate a possible connection between C and the presence of planetary companions.
Methods. We used the HARPS spectrograph to obtain high-resolution optical spectra of our targets. Spectral synthesis of the CH band at 4300 Å was performed with the spectral synthesis codes MOOG and FITTING.
Results. We have studied carbon in several reliable spectral windows and have obtained abundances and distributions that show that planet host stars are carbon rich when compared to single stars, a signature caused by the known metal-rich nature of stars with planets. We find no different behaviour when separating the stars by the mass of the planetary companion
Conclusions. We conclude that reliable carbon abundances can be derived for solar-type stars from the CH band at 4300 Å. We confirm two different slope trends for [C/Fe] with [Fe/H] because the behaviour is opposite for stars above and below solar values. We observe a flat distribution of the [C/Fe] ratio for all planetary masses, a finding that apparently excludes any clear connection between the [C/Fe] abundance ratio and planetary mass.
Key words: stars: abundances / stars: chemically peculiar / planetary systems
Based on observations collected at the La Silla Paranal Observatory, ESO (Chile) with the HARPS spectrograph at the 3.6-m telescope (ESO runs ID 72.C-0488, 082.C-0212, and 085.C-0063).
Full Table 1 is only available 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/599/A96
© ESO, 2017
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