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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A search for Planet 9
| العنوان: | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A search for Planet 9 |
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| المؤلفون: | Sigurd Naess, Simone Aiola, Nick Battaglia, Richard J. Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Steve K. Choi, Nicholas F. Cothard, Mark Halpern, J. Colin Hill, Brian J. Koopman, Mark Devlin, Jeff McMahon, Simon Dicker, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Jo Dunkley, Valentina Fanfani, Simone Ferraro, Patricio A. Gallardo, Yilun Guan, Dongwon Han, Matthew Hasselfield, Adam D. Hincks, Kevin Huffenberger, Arthur B. Kosowsky, Thibaut Louis, Amanda Macinnis, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Federico Nati, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman Page, Maria Salatino, Emmanuel Schaan, John Orlowski-Scherer, Alessandro Schillaci, Benjamin Schmitt, Neelima Sehgal, Cristóbal Sifón, Suzanne Staggs, Alexander Van Engelen, Edward J Wollack |
| المصدر: | The Astrophysical Journal. 923(2) |
| بيانات النشر: | United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics, Astronomy |
| الوصف: | We use Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) observations at 98 GHz (2015–2019), 150 GHz (2013–2019), and 229 GHz (2017–2019) to perform a blind shift-and-stack search for Planet 9. The search explores distances from 300 au to 2000 au and velocities up to 6\farcm3 per year, depending on the distance (r). For a 5 Earth-mass Planet 9 the detection limit varies from 325 au to 625 au, depending on the sky location. For a 10 Earth-mass planet the corresponding range is 425 au to 775 au. The predicted aphelion and most likely location of the planet corresponds to the shallower end of these ranges. The search covers the whole 18,000 square degrees of the ACT survey. No significant detections are found, which is used to place limits on the millimeter-wave flux density of Planet 9 over much of its orbit. Overall we eliminate roughly 17% and 9% of the parameter space for a 5 and 10 Earth-mass Planet 9, respectively. These bounds approach those of a recent INPOP19a ephemeris-based analysis, but do not exceed it. We also provide a list of the 10 strongest candidates from the search for possible follow-up. More generally, we exclude (at 95% confidence) the presence of an unknown solar system object within our survey area brighter than 4–12 mJy (depending on position) at 150 GHz with current distance 300 au < r < 600 au and heliocentric angular velocity 1\farcm5 per yr < v x (500au/r) < 2\farcs3 per yr, corresponding to low-to-moderate eccentricities. These limits worsen gradually beyond 600 au, reaching 5–15 mJy by 1500 au. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Report |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1538-4357 0004-637X |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2307 |
| URL الوصول: | https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210026224 |
| ملاحظات: | 920121 NSF AST-0408698 NSF AST-0965625 NSF AST-1440226 NSF PHY-0355328 NSF PHY-0855887 NSF PHY-1214379 STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship ST/M004856/2 STFC Consolidated ST/S00033X/1 EUH 2020 849169 NSF AST-2001866 NSF AST 1815887 NSF AST-1907657 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsnas.20210026224 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | NASA Technical Reports |
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