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The debris disc of solar analogue tau Ceti : Herschel observations and dynamical simulations of the proposed multiplanet system

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Date
01/11/2014
Author
Lawler, S. M.
Di Francesco, J.
Kennedy, G. M.
Sibthorpe, B.
Booth, M.
Vandenbussche, B.
Matthews, B. C.
Holland, W. S.
Greaves, J.
Wilner, D. J.
Tuomi, M.
Blommaert, J. A. D. L.
de Vries, B. L.
Dominik, C.
Fridlund, M.
Gear, W.
Heras, A. M.
Ivison, R.
Olofsson, G.
Funder
Science & Technology Facilities Council
Grant ID
ST/J001651/1
Keywords
planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability
planet-disc
interactions
circumstellar matter
stars: individual: tau Ceti
Main-sequence stars
Low-mass planets
All-sky survey
Beta-pictoris
HR 8799
Spire instrument
Dust content
Alignment
Emission
Rotation
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
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Abstract
tau Ceti is a nearby, mature G-type star very similar to our Sun, with a massive Kuiper Belt analogue and possible multiplanet system that has been compared to our Solar system. We present Herschel Space Observatory images of the debris disc, finding the disc is resolved at 70 mu m and 160 mu m, and marginally resolved at 250 mu m. The Herschel images and infrared photometry from the literature are best modelled using a wide dust annulus with an inner edge between 1 and 10 au and an outer edge at similar to 55 au, inclined from face-on by 35 degrees +/- 10 degrees, and with no significant azimuthal structure. We model the proposed tightly packed planetary system of five super-Earths and find that the innermost dynamically stable disc orbits are consistent with the inner edge found by the observations. The photometric modelling, however, cannot rule out a disc inner edge as close to the star as 1 au, though larger distances produce a better fit to the data. Dynamical modelling shows that the five-planet system is stable with the addition of a Neptune or smaller mass planet on an orbit outside 5 au, where the radial velocity data analysis would not have detected a planet of this mass.
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Lawler , S M , Di Francesco , J , Kennedy , G M , Sibthorpe , B , Booth , M , Vandenbussche , B , Matthews , B C , Holland , W S , Greaves , J , Wilner , D J , Tuomi , M , Blommaert , J A D L , de Vries , B L , Dominik , C , Fridlund , M , Gear , W , Heras , A M , Ivison , R & Olofsson , G 2014 , ' The debris disc of solar analogue tau Ceti : Herschel observations and dynamical simulations of the proposed multiplanet system ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 444 , no. 3 , pp. 2665-2675 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1641
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1641
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
Rights
This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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SML and BCM acknowledge an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement which funded this work. This work was also supported by the European Union through ERC grant number 279973 (GMK). MB acknowledges support from a FONDECYT Postdoctral Fellowship, project no. 3140479.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5835

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