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R Sanchis-Ojeda DC Fabrycky JN Winn T Barclay BD Clarke EB Ford JJ Fortney JC Geary MJ Holman AW Howard JM Jenkins D Koch JJ Lissauer GW Marcy F Mullally D Ragozzine SE Seader M Still SE Thompson 《Nature》2012,487(7408):449-453
The Sun's equator and the planets' orbital planes are nearly aligned, which is presumably a consequence of their formation from a single spinning gaseous disk. For exoplanetary systems this well-aligned configuration is not guaranteed: dynamical interactions may tilt planetary orbits, or stars may be misaligned with the protoplanetary disk through chaotic accretion , magnetic interactions or torques from neighbouring stars. Indeed, isolated 'hot Jupiters' are often misaligned and even orbiting retrograde. Here we report an analysis of transits of planets over starspots on the Sun-like star Kepler-30 (ref. 8), and show that the orbits of its three planets are aligned with the stellar equator. Furthermore, the orbits are aligned with one another to within a few degrees. This configuration is similar to that of our Solar System, and contrasts with the isolated hot Jupiters. The orderly alignment seen in the Kepler-30 system suggests that high obliquities are confined to systems that experienced disruptive dynamical interactions. Should this be corroborated by observations of other coplanar multi-planet systems, then star-disk misalignments would be ruled out as the explanation for the high obliquities of hot Jupiters, and dynamical interactions would be implicated as the origin of hot Jupiters. 相似文献
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WEN Jin NAN Beiyan Fergal O'Gara WANG Yiping 《科学通报(英文版)》2005,50(17):1891-1895
The Sinorhizobium meliloti C4-dicarboxylate transport (Dct) system is essential for symbiotic nitrogen fixation. The dctA gene, encoding the C4-dicarboxylate permease, is expressed in both free living and symbiotic cells. But in free living cells expression of dctD and dctB is absolutely required for the expression of dctA. In this study, in order to investigate the effect of oxygen concentration on the induction of Dct system, E. coli DH5a strain which carries the plasmid-encoded dctABD operon was used in tube assays. It was found that the specific induction of Dct system oc- curred only at a certain depth under the surface of M63-0.6% agar media, suggesting that Dct system could respond to oxygen concentration during succinate-induced expression. Furthermore, when measured at different oxygen concentrations, the highest expression level was observed at oxygen concentration of 2%. Thus, we predict that in addition to dicarboxylates, the induction of Dct system may also regulated by oxygen concentration. 相似文献
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Two Earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Fressin F Torres G Rowe JF Charbonneau D Rogers LA Ballard S Batalha NM Borucki WJ Bryson ST Buchhave LA Ciardi DR Désert JM Dressing CD Fabrycky DC Ford EB Gautier TN Henze CE Holman MJ Howard A Howell SB Jenkins JM Koch DG Latham DW Lissauer JJ Marcy GW Quinn SN Ragozzine D Sasselov DD Seager S Barclay T Mullally F Seader SE Still M Twicken JD Thompson SE Uddin K 《Nature》2012,482(7384):195-198
Since the discovery of the first extrasolar giant planets around Sun-like stars, evolving observational capabilities have brought us closer to the detection of true Earth analogues. The size of an exoplanet can be determined when it periodically passes in front of (transits) its parent star, causing a decrease in starlight proportional to its radius. The smallest exoplanet hitherto discovered has a radius 1.42 times that of the Earth's radius (R(⊕)), and hence has 2.9 times its volume. Here we report the discovery of two planets, one Earth-sized (1.03R(⊕)) and the other smaller than the Earth (0.87R(⊕)), orbiting the star Kepler-20, which is already known to host three other, larger, transiting planets. The gravitational pull of the new planets on the parent star is too small to measure with current instrumentation. We apply a statistical method to show that the likelihood of the planetary interpretation of the transit signals is more than three orders of magnitude larger than that of the alternative hypothesis that the signals result from an eclipsing binary star. Theoretical considerations imply that these planets are rocky, with a composition of iron and silicate. The outer planet could have developed a thick water vapour atmosphere. 相似文献
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