scholarly journals Compositional Diversity of Rocky Exoplanets

Elements ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith D. Putirka ◽  
Caroline Dorn ◽  
Natalie R. Hinkel ◽  
Cayman T. Unterborn

To test whether exoplanets are similar to Earth, knowledge of their host star composition is essential. Stellar elemental abundances and planetary orbital data show that of the ~5,000 known minerals, exoplanetary silicate mantles contain mostly olivine, orthopyroxene, and clinopyroxene, ± quartz and magnesiowüstite at the extremes, while wholly exotic mineralogies are unlikely. Understanding the geology of exoplanets requires a better marriage of geological insights to astronomical data. The study of exoplanets is like a mirror: it reflects our incomplete understanding of Earth and neighboring planets. New geological/planetary experiments, informed by exoplanet studies, are needed for effective progress.

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
P.-I. Eriksson

Nowadays more and more of the reductions of astronomical data are made with electronic computers. As we in Uppsala have an IBM 1620 at the University, we have taken it to our help with reductions of spectrophotometric data. Here I will briefly explain how we use it now and how we want to use it in the near future.


1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 348-349
Author(s):  
Th. Schmidt-Kaler

This is only an informal remark about some difficulties I am worrying about.I have tried to recalibrate the MK system in terms of intrinsic colour (B–V)0and absolute magnitudeMv. The procedures used have been described in a review article by Voigt (Mitt. Astr. Ges.1963, p. 25–35), and the results for stars of the luminosity classes Ia-O,I and II have been given also in Blaauw's article on the calibration of luminosity criteria in vol. III (Basic Astronomical Data, p. 401) ofStars and Stellar Systems.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Hoa Nguyen ◽  
Jason Chan ◽  
Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen ◽  
Robert T. Teranishi

1999 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 1245-1251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffery A. Brown ◽  
George Wallerstein ◽  
Guillermo Gonzalez

2000 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 1839-1847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Gonzalez ◽  
George Wallerstein

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (19) ◽  
pp. 5621-5633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Tian ◽  
Oskar Laaksonen ◽  
Heta Haikonen ◽  
Anita Vanag ◽  
Huma Ejaz ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 626 ◽  
pp. A16 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rojas-Arriagada ◽  
M. Zoccali ◽  
M. Schultheis ◽  
A. Recio-Blanco ◽  
G. Zasowski ◽  
...  

Context. The Galactic bulge has a bimodal metallicity distribution function: different kinematic, spatial, and, potentially, age distributions characterize the metal-poor and metal-rich components. Despite this observed dichotomy, which argues for different formation channels for those stars, the distribution of bulge stars in the α-abundance versus metallicity plane has been found so far to be a rather smooth single sequence. Aims. We use data from the fourteenth data release of the APOGEE spectroscopic survey (DR14) to investigate the distribution in the Mg abundance (as tracer of the α-elements)-versus-metallicity plane of a sample of stars selected to be in the inner region of the bulge. Methods. A clean sample has been selected from the DR14 using a set of data- and pipeline-flags to ensure the quality of their fundamental parameters and elemental abundances. An additional selection made use of computed spectro-photometric distances to select a sample of likely bulge stars as those with RGC ≤ 3.5 kpc. We adopt magnesium abundance as an α-abundance proxy for our clean sample as it has been proven to be the most accurate α-element as determined by ASPCAP, the pipeline for data products from APOGEE spectra. Results. From the distribution of our bulge sample in the [Mg/Fe]-versus-[Fe/H] plane, we found that the sequence is bimodal. This bimodality is given by the presence of a low-Mg sequence of stars parallel to the main high-Mg sequence over a range of ∼0.5 dex around solar metallicity. The two sequences merge above [Fe/H] ∼ 0.15 dex into a single sequence whose dispersion in [Mg/Fe] is larger than either of the two sequences visible at lower metallicity. This result is confirmed when we consider stars in our sample that are inside the bulge region according to trustworthy Gaia DR2 distances.


1996 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 363-366
Author(s):  
Koujun Yamashita

X-ray emissions from clusters are most likely originated from a thin hot plasma in a collisional ionization equilibrium. The optical depth of continuum component is order of 10–3, whereas that of emission lines is around unity. Present emission models used for spectral fitting can not estimate this effect, so that the determination of elemental abundances seems to include large uncertainty. The high resolution spectroscopy with ASCA gives a clue to investigate the physical state of hot intracluster gas and a impact to reconsider the basic atomic processes. This is important issue to deeply understand the structure, formation and evolution of clusters, and the origin of intracluster gas.


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