Fig. 8

Stability analysis of the AU Mic planetary system, around the best fit solution (Table 4), with Mc = 25.0 M⊕ (a), and Mc = 2.2 M⊕ (b). The phase space of the system is explored by varying the semi-major axis ac (and thus the period Pc) and eccentricity ec of the outer planet; ec is plotted as a function of Pc and not ac, as the uncertainty on ac is larger. For the initial conditions, the step size is 0.01 in eccentricity, and 2 × 10−5 au in semi-major axis. For each initial condition, the system is integrated over 5 kyr and a stability criterion is derived with the frequency analysis of the mean longitude. The chaotic diffusion is measured by the variation in the mean motion. The color scale corresponds to the decimal logarithm of the variation of the mean motion (Correia et al. 2010). The “red” zone corresponds to highly unstable orbits, while the “dark-blue” region canbe assumed to be stable on a billion-years timescale. The main resonances in the vicinity of the solution (13:6, 11:5, 9:4, 7:3) are labeled. It should be noted that for the lower value of the mass Mc (b), the libration island is mostly stable while it is not the case for the larger value of Mc (a).
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