TY - JOUR
T1 - Extrasolar trojan planets close to habitable zones
AU - Dvorak, Rudolf
AU - Pilat-Lohinger, Elke
AU - Schwarz, Richard
AU - Freistetter, Florian
N1 - DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200400075
Coden: AAEJA
Affiliations: Universitätssternwarte Wien, Türkenschanzstr. 17, 1180 Wien, Austria
Adressen: Dvorak, R.; Universitätssternwarte Wien; Türkenschanzstr. 17 1180 Wien, Austria; email: [email protected]
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PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - We investigate the stability regions of hypothetical terrestrial planets around the Lagrangian equilibrium points L4 and L5 in some specific extrasolar planetary systems. The problem of their stability can be treated in the framework of the restricted three body problem where the host star and a massive Jupiter-like planet are the primary bodies and the terrestrial planet is regarded as being massless. From these theoretical investigations one cannot determine the extension of the stable zones around the equilibrium points. Using numerical experiments we determined their largeness for three test systems chosen from the table of the know extrasolar planets, where a giant planet is moving close to the so-called habitable zone around the host star in low eccentric orbits. The results show the dependence of the size and structure of this region, which shrinks significantly with the eccentricity of the known gas giant.
AB - We investigate the stability regions of hypothetical terrestrial planets around the Lagrangian equilibrium points L4 and L5 in some specific extrasolar planetary systems. The problem of their stability can be treated in the framework of the restricted three body problem where the host star and a massive Jupiter-like planet are the primary bodies and the terrestrial planet is regarded as being massless. From these theoretical investigations one cannot determine the extension of the stable zones around the equilibrium points. Using numerical experiments we determined their largeness for three test systems chosen from the table of the know extrasolar planets, where a giant planet is moving close to the so-called habitable zone around the host star in low eccentric orbits. The results show the dependence of the size and structure of this region, which shrinks significantly with the eccentricity of the known gas giant.
U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361:200400075
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361:200400075
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-6361
VL - 426
SP - 37
EP - 40
JO - Astronomy & Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy & Astrophysics
IS - 2
ER -