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Ecuvillon, A.; Israelian, G.; Pont, F.; Santos, N. C.; Mayor, M.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 461, Issue 1, January I 2007, pp.171-182
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2007
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Description
We present a detailed study on the kinematics of metal-rich stars with
and without planets, and their relation to the Hyades, Sirius and
Hercules dynamical streams in the solar neighbourhood. Accurate
kinematics have been derived for all the stars belonging to the CORALIE
planet search survey. We used precise radial velocity measurements and
CCF parameters from the CORALIE database, and parallaxes, photometry and
proper motions from the HIPPARCOS and Tycho-2 catalogues. The location
of stars with planets in the thin or thick discs has been analysed using
both kinematic and chemical constraints. We compare the kinematic
behaviour of known planet-host stars to the remaining targets belonging
to the 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 and then been brought into the solar neighbourhood by
dynamical streams.