Bibcode
Udry, S.; Santos, N. C.; Israelian, G.; Sousa, S. G.; Delgado-Mena, E.; González-Hernández, J. I.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.334, Issue 1-2, p.172
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2013
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Description
We present a detailed chemical abundance analysis of a sample of F- and
G-type stars. We investigate the possibility that the presence of
terrestrial planets could affect the volatile-to-refractory abundance
ratios. Stars with and without planets exhibit very similar abundance
behaviours, either for solar twins or even when considering the whole
sample of 95 solar analogs, 33 with and 62 without detected planets, in
the metallicity range -0.3<[Fe/H]<0.5. After removing the
Galactic chemical evolution effects, the small differences in the
abundance patterns of stars with and without planets practically
disappear and the mean volatile-to-refractory abundance ratios of the
two samples are very close to solar values. If the depletion signature
depends on the size of the convective zone, then stars hotter than the
Sun should, in principle, show enhanced volatile-to-refractory abundance
differences. Thus, we have also selected a sample of late F- and early
G-type main-sequence stars with high-quality spectra. We have in total
29 planet-host stars and 32 stars without planets in the T_eff range
5950-6400 K. We find very accurate Galactic chemical trends of these
hotter stars that match those of solar analogs. Finally, we compare the
abundance ratios of volatile and refractory elements versus the
condensation temperature of this sample of main-sequence stars hotter
than the Sun with respect to those of solar analogs, paying special
attention to those stars containing super-Earth-like planets.
Based on HARPS/3.6m-ESO, UVES/8m-VLT and UES/4.2m-WHT spectroscopic
data.
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Several spectroscopic analyses of stars with planets have recently been carried out. One of the most remarkable results is that planet-harbouring stars are on average more metal-rich than solar-type disc stars. Two main explanations have been suggested to link this metallicity excess with the presence of planets. The first of these, the “self
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