Kinematics of Planet-Host Stars

Ecuvillon, Alexandra; Israelian, Garik; Pont, F.; Santos, Nuno Cardoso; Mayor, Michel
Bibliographical reference

"JENAM-2007, "Our non-stable Universe", held 20-25 August 2007 in Yerevan, Armenia. Abstract book, p. 7-7"

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2007
Number of authors
5
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1
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0
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0
Description
We present a detailed study on the kinematics of metal-rich stars with and without planets, and their relation with the Hyades, Sirius and Hercules dynamical streams in the solar neighbourhood. We compare the kinematic behaviour of known planet-host stars to the remaining targets belonging to the CORALIE volume-limited sample, in particular to its metal-rich population. The high average metallicity of the Hyades stream is confirmed. The planet-host targets show a kinematic behaviour similar to that of the metal-rich comparison subsample, rather than to that of the comparison sample as a whole, thus supporting a primordial origin for the metal excess observed in stars with known planetary companions. According to the scenarios proposed as an explanation for the dynamical streams, systems with giant planets could have formed more easily in metal-rich inner Galactic regions.