Issue |
A&A
Volume 621, January 2019
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Article Number | A124 | |
Number of page(s) | 20 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833314 | |
Published online | 16 January 2019 |
Evolution of star–planet systems under magnetic braking and tidal interaction
1
IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay,
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
e-mail: mansour.benbakoura@cea.fr
2
AIM, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot,
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
3
SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, LNE, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
4
UCLA Earth, Planetary and Spaces Sciences,
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Los Angeles,
CA 90035, USA
Received:
27
April
2018
Accepted:
14
November
2018
Context. With the discovery over the last two decades of a large diversity of exoplanetary systems, it is now of prime importance to characterize star–planet interactions and how such systems evolve.
Aims. We address this question by studying systems formed by a solar-like star and a close-in planet. We focus on the stellar wind spinning down the star along its main-sequence phase and tidal interaction causing orbital evolution of the systems. Despite recent significant advances in these fields, all current models use parametric descriptions to study at least one of these effects. Our objective is to introduce ab initio prescriptions of the tidal and braking torques simultaneously, so as to improve our understanding of the underlying physics.
Methods. We develop a one-dimensional (1D) numerical model of coplanar circular star–planet systems taking into account stellar structural changes, wind braking, and tidal interaction and implement it in a code called ESPEM. We follow the secular evolution of the stellar rotation and of the semi-major axis of the orbit, assuming a bilayer internal structure for the former. After comparing our predictions to recent observations and models, we perform tests to emphasize the contribution of ab initio prescriptions. Finally, we isolate four significant characteristics of star–planet systems: stellar mass, initial stellar rotation period, planetary mass and initial semi-major axis; and browse the parameter space to investigate the influence of each of them on the fate of the system.
Results. Our secular model of stellar wind braking accurately reproduces the recent observations of stellar rotation in open clusters. Our results show that a planet can affect the rotation of its host star and that the resulting spin-up or spin-down depends on the orbital semi-major axis and on the joint influence of magnetic and tidal effects. The ab initio prescription for tidal dissipation that we used predicts fast outward migration of massive planets orbiting fast-rotating young stars. Finally, we provide the reader with a criterion based on the characteristics of the system that allows us to assess whether or not the planet will undergo orbital decay due to tidal interaction.
Key words: stars: evolution / stars: solar-type / stars: low-mass / stars: rotation / planet–star interactions / planetary systems
© ESO 2019
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