What Fraction of Sun-like Stars have Planets?

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2003-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306524v2

Astrophys.J.598:1350-1360,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Conforms to version accepted by ApJ. Color version and movie available at http://bat.phys.unsw.edu.au/~charley/download/whatfr

Scientific paper

10.1086/379124

The radial velocities of ~1800 nearby Sun-like stars are currently being monitored by eight high-sensitivity Doppler exoplanet surveys. Approximately 90 of these stars have been found to host exoplanets massive enough to be detectable. Thus at least ~5% of target stars possess planets. If we limit our analysis to target stars that have been monitored the longest (~15 years), ~11% possess planets. If we limit our analysis to stars monitored the longest and whose low surface activity allow the most precise velocity measurements, ~25% possess planets. By identifying trends of the exoplanet mass and period distributions in a sub-sample of exoplanets less-biased by selection effects, and linearly extrapolating these trends into regions of parameter space that have not yet been completely sampled, we find at least ~9% of Sun-like stars have planets in the mass and orbital period ranges Msin(i) > 0.3 M_Jupiter and P < 13 years, and at least ~22% have planets in the larger range Msin(i) > 0.1 M_Jupiter and P < 60 years. Even this larger area of the mass-period plane is less than 20% of the area occupied by our planetary system, suggesting that this estimate is still a lower limit to the true fraction of Sun-like stars with planets, which may be as large as ~100%.

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