Two Planets Orbiting The Recently Formed Post-Common Envelope Binary NN Serpentis

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dc.contributor.utaustinauthorWinget, D. E.en_US
dc.contributor.utaustinauthorMiller, G. F.en_US
dc.creatorBeuermann, K.en_US
dc.creatorHessman, F. V.en_US
dc.creatorDreizler, S.en_US
dc.creatorMarsh, T. R.en_US
dc.creatorParsons, S. G.en_US
dc.creatorWinget, D. E.en_US
dc.creatorMiller, G. F.en_US
dc.creatorSchreiber, M. R.en_US
dc.creatorKley, W.en_US
dc.creatorDhillon, V. S.en_US
dc.creatorLittlefair, S. P.en_US
dc.creatorCopperwheat, C. M.en_US
dc.creatorHermes, J. J.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-22T19:47:17Z
dc.date.available2016-04-22T19:47:17Z
dc.date.issued2010-10en
dc.description.abstractPlanets orbiting post-common envelope binaries provide fundamental information on planet formation and evolution. We searched for such planets in NN Ser ab, an eclipsing short-period binary that shows long-term eclipse time variations. Using published, reanalysed, and new mid-eclipse times of NN Ser ab obtained between 1988 and 2010, we find excellent agreement with the light-travel-time effect produced by two additional bodies superposed on the linear ephemeris of the binary. Our multi-parameter fits accompanied by N-body simulations yield a best fit for the objects NN Ser (ab)c and d locked in the 2:1 mean motion resonance, with orbital periods P-c similar or equal to 15.5 yrs and P-d similar or equal to 7.7 yrs, masses M-c sin i(c) similar or equal to 6.9 M-Jup and M-d sin i(d) similar or equal to 2.2 M-Jup, and eccentricities e(c) similar or equal to 0 and e(d) similar or equal to 0.20. A secondary chi(2) minimum corresponds to an alternative solution with a period ratio of 5:2. We estimate that the progenitor binary consisted of an A star with similar or equal to 2 M-circle dot and the present M dwarf secondary at an orbital separation of similar to 1.5 AU. The survival of two planets through the common-envelope phase that created the present white dwarf requires fine tuning between the gravitational force and the drag force experienced by them in the expanding envelope. The alternative is a second-generation origin in a circumbinary disk created at the end of this phase. In that case, the planets would be extremely young with ages not exceeding the cooling age of the white dwarf of 10(6) yrs.en_US
dc.description.departmentAstronomyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAlfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, Essen 085.D-0541en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUK's STFCen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFONDECYT 1061199en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCentre of Astrophysics Valparaisoen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNorman Hackerman Advanced Research Program 003658-0255-2007en_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T27V30
dc.identifier.citationBeuermann, Klaus, F. V. Hessman, S. Dreizler, T. R. Marsh, S. G. Parsons, Donald Earl Winget, G. F. Miller et al. >Two planets orbiting the recently formed post-common envelope binary NN Serpentis.> Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 521 (Oct., 2010): L60.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1051/0004-6361/201015472en_US
dc.identifier.issn0004-6361en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/34484
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofserialAstronomy & Astrophysicsen_US
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dc.subjectbinaries: eclipsingen_US
dc.subjectplanetary systemsen_US
dc.subjectstars: individual: nn seren_US
dc.subjectnovaeen_US
dc.subjectcataclysmic variablesen_US
dc.subjectplanets and satellites: formationen_US
dc.subjectstars:en_US
dc.subjectevolutionen_US
dc.subjectwhite-dwarfen_US
dc.subjectsystemen_US
dc.subjectcompanionen_US
dc.subjectmassen_US
dc.subjectseren_US
dc.subjectastronomy & astrophysicsen_US
dc.titleTwo Planets Orbiting The Recently Formed Post-Common Envelope Binary NN Serpentisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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