Published July 19, 2018
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Constraints for exomoon detectability via tidal migration
Authors/Creators
- 1. Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
- 2. U.Antioquia
Description
Detection of exoplanets has been a fruitful task over the last decades only tarnished by the lack of confirmed exomoons. The observational bias related to the current methods of detecting exoplanets, as well as the strong dynamical effects that an exomoon of a close-in giant exoplanet undergoes, may be the cause of this absence of positive results.
For these kind of systems, and according to newly models for tidal migration of exomoons that consider the evolution of
planetary parameters such as its size, Love's number and tidal quality factor, the torque's interplay triggers the orbital
evolution of the satellite until its semimajor-axis reaches a stationary value, nicknamed in advance as the \textit{tidal
migration's braking point} (TMBP) of the system. The TMBP value mainly depends on a set of initial parameters as the
moon and planet masses, distances and rotational rates. On the other hand, the detection of an exomoon is directly
related to the moon's size, mass and moon-planet separation, which might be constrained by the satellital tidal biography.
In this work we explored the set of initial orbital and physical parameter for a planet-moon system, to numerically asses
the TMBP in order to obtain some constraints for exomoon detectability by diverse methods of namely, transits, radial
velocity, TTV and TDV, with the instrumentation currently available.
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