Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-08-15
Astrophys.J.596:L101-L104,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 3 figures, AASTeX, accepted to the ApJL
Scientific paper
10.1086/379056
The Hyades open cluster presents a unique laboratory for planet formation and stellar pollution studies because all of the stars have essentially the same age and were born from the same cloud of gas. Furthermore, with an age of roughly 650 Myr most of the intermediate and low mass stars are on the main sequence. Given these assumptions, the accretion of metal rich material onto the surface of a star during and shortly after the formation of planetary systems should be evident via the enhanced metallicity of the star. Building on previous work, stellar evolution models which include the effects of stellar pollution are applied to the Hyades. The results of several Monte Carlo simulations, in which the amount of accreted material is drawn at random from a Gaussian distribution with standard deviation equal to half the mean, are presented. An effective temperature-[Fe/H] relation is produced and compared to recent observations. The theoretical predictions presented in this letter will be useful in future searches for evidence of stellar pollution due to planet formation. It is concluded that stellar pollution effects at the mean level of >=2 Earth masses of iron are ruled out by current observational data.
Chaboyer Brian
Dotter Aaron
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