Catalogue

Results

We know more than 220 extrasolar planets in 180 planetary systems, among them 15 binary systems and 20 multiplanetary systems (see the catalogue maintained by Jean Schneider). Only 12 single-star systems have a giant planet partly or fully in the HZ (see Table 1), where the eccentricity is < 0.25 . A small eccentricity is very important for the dynamical stability and also for the habitability.
In this work we study the dynamical possibility in extrasolar planetary systems that a terrestrial planet can exist in 1:1 mean motion resonance with a Jovian-like planet. We compiled a catalogue for hypothetical habitable Trojan planets, to be able to make a stability foresight for further extrasolar planetary systems discovered in future. When we speak of habitability we took also into account the infuence of the spectral type of the central star.

Fig. 1 Fig. 2

Determination of the stable area
In Fig. 1 we show how we have chosen the initial conditions around the Lagrangian point L4: in one direction, along the connecting line of the star and the Trojan planet (see ΔaGG in Fig. 2), we changed the normalised semimajor axis a of the Trojan planet, in the other direction we changed the synodic longitude λ. We changed the semimajor axis 0.9 < a < 1.1 with a gridsize Δa = 0.0025 and 0° < λ < 180° with a grid-size of Δλ = 1°.

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Richard Schwarz
© by Department of Astronomy, Eötvös University Budapest; and
Institute for Astronomy, University of Vienna