Statistical properties of exoplanets II. Metallicity, orbital parameters, and space velocities

Details Statistical properties of exoplanets II. Metallicity, orbital parameters, and space velocities Statistical properties of exoplanets II. Metallicity, orbital parameters, and space velocities

2002-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211211v1

Astron.Astrophys. 398 (2003) 363-376

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 10 (eps) figures, Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20021637

In this article we present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of more than 50 extra-solar planet host stars. Stellar atmospheric parameters and metallicities are derived using high resolution and high S/N spectra. The spectroscopy results, added to the previous studies, imply that we have access to a large and uniform sample of metallicities for about 80 planet hosts stars. We make use of this sample to confirm the metal-rich nature of stars with planets, and to show that the planetary frequency is rising as a function of the [Fe/H]. Furthermore, the source of this high metallicity is shown to have most probably an ``primordial'' source, confirming previous results. The comparison of the orbital properties (period and eccentricity) and minimum masses of the planets with the stellar properties also reveal some emerging but still not significant trends. These are discussed and some explanations are proposed. Finally, we show that the planet host stars included in the CORALIE survey have similar kinematical properties as the whole CORALIE volume-limited planet search sample. Planet hosts simply seem to occupy the metal-rich envelope of this latter population.

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