Multiple Planets Problems and Solutions in Astrometry

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Jan 2009

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #300.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.268

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In early 2008, NASA asked the SIM project to conduct a double blind study to determine how well astrometry at the microarcsec level can detect Earth-like planets in the habitable zone in the environment of a multiple planet system. Astrometric planet detection looks for a periodic signature and confusion can result if two or more planets have orbital frequencies that can not be separated with a finite data set. 5 years of micro-arcsec level measurements from a mission like SIM, can not resolve orbital periods of planets separated by less than 0.2 cycles per year. Our solar system
however has 4 planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune whose periods are all within 0.2 cycles/yr of each other. This paper describes the type of problems that arise and the procedures developed to work around these problems. The double blind study consisted of 48 multiple planet systems with a total of 98 planets and 483 asteroids and 48 of the 98 planets had a large enough signal to be detected, had they been "solo" planets. In the end the SIM science team was able to find 96% of the "48 planets", and 98% of the claimed detections were real. For terrestrial planets in the habitable zone all 13 planets were detected with no false positives.

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