Bibcode
Adamow, Monika; Niedzielski, Andrzej; Nowak, G.; Deka, Beata; Gorecka, Michalina; Wolszczan, Aleksander; Kowalik, Kacper
Referencia bibliográfica
Protostars and Planets VI, Heidelberg, July 15-20, 2013. Poster #2K026
Fecha de publicación:
7
2013
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Descripción
The wealth of exoplanets and the architectures of planetary systems that
continue to emerge, is astounding and raises questions about the general
picture of planet formation and evolution. To achieve such a stage of
understanding, continuing studies of planetary systems in various
stellar environments are essential. At present, of about 900 known
exoplanets only about 50 around evolved stars are known. Searches for
planets around evolved stars represent a very important complement to
projects focused on the solar type stars because each detection of a
planetary system around a sufficiently evolved star provides a snapshot
of the changes in its dynamical configuration powered by evolution of
the parent star. After the star leaves the MS, the tidal interactions
become important and extend their range significantly. The observed
absence of tight planetary orbits around giants has been interpreted in
terms of a tidal interaction between an expanding giant and an orbiting
planet. It appears that this interaction would make any planet in an
initial orbit smaller than 0.3-0.4 au inevitably spiral into the stellar
envelope. Observational evidences of such interactions were missing
until very recently. Only very few examples of such interactions exist
in the literature. Here we present those recently obtained within PTPS -
a long-term RV survey of a sample of GK-evolved stars with the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope in search for planets, recently extended with
chemical abundance analysis.