The death of Vulcan: NEID reveals the planet candidate orbiting HD 26965 is stellar activity
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| author | Burrows, Abigail Halverson, Samuel Siegel, Jared C. Gilbertson, Christian Luhn, Jacob Burt, Jennifer Bender, Chad F. Roy, Arpita Terrien, Ryan C. Vangstein, Selma Mahadevan, Suvrath Wright, Jason T. Robertson, Paul Ford, Eric B. Stefánsson, Guðmundur Ninan, Joe P. Blake, Cullen H. McElwain, Michael W. Schwab, Christian Zhao, Jinglin |
| author_facet | Burrows, Abigail Halverson, Samuel Siegel, Jared C. Gilbertson, Christian Luhn, Jacob Burt, Jennifer Bender, Chad F. Roy, Arpita Terrien, Ryan C. Vangstein, Selma Mahadevan, Suvrath Wright, Jason T. Robertson, Paul Ford, Eric B. Stefánsson, Guðmundur Ninan, Joe P. Blake, Cullen H. McElwain, Michael W. Schwab, Christian Zhao, Jinglin |
| contents | We revisit the long-studied radial velocity (RV) target HD26965 using recent observations from the NASA-NSF 'NEID' precision Doppler facility. Leveraging a suite of classical activity indicators, combined with line-by-line RV analyses, we demonstrate that the claimed 45-day signal previously identified as a planet candidate is most likely an activity-induced signal. Correlating the bulk (spectrally-averaged) RV with canonical line activity indicators confirms a multi-day 'lag' between the observed activity indicator time series and the measured RV. When accounting for this lag, we show that much of the observed RV signal can be removed by a linear detrending of the data. Investigating activity at the line-by-line level, we find a depth-dependent correlation between individual line RVs and the bulk RVs, further indicative of periodic suppression of convective blueshift causing the observed RV variability, rather than an orbiting planet. We conclude that the combined evidence of the activity correlations and depth dependence is consistent with a radial velocity signature dominated by a rotationally-modulated activity signal at a period of $\sim$42 days. We hypothesize that this activity signature is due to a combination of spots and convective blueshift suppression. The tools applied in our analysis are broadly applicable to other stars, and could help paint a more comprehensive picture of the manifestations of stellar activity in future Doppler RV surveys. |
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| spellingShingle | The death of Vulcan: NEID reveals the planet candidate orbiting HD 26965 is stellar activity Burrows, Abigail Halverson, Samuel Siegel, Jared C. Gilbertson, Christian Luhn, Jacob Burt, Jennifer Bender, Chad F. Roy, Arpita Terrien, Ryan C. Vangstein, Selma Mahadevan, Suvrath Wright, Jason T. Robertson, Paul Ford, Eric B. Stefánsson, Guðmundur Ninan, Joe P. Blake, Cullen H. McElwain, Michael W. Schwab, Christian Zhao, Jinglin Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics We revisit the long-studied radial velocity (RV) target HD26965 using recent observations from the NASA-NSF 'NEID' precision Doppler facility. Leveraging a suite of classical activity indicators, combined with line-by-line RV analyses, we demonstrate that the claimed 45-day signal previously identified as a planet candidate is most likely an activity-induced signal. Correlating the bulk (spectrally-averaged) RV with canonical line activity indicators confirms a multi-day 'lag' between the observed activity indicator time series and the measured RV. When accounting for this lag, we show that much of the observed RV signal can be removed by a linear detrending of the data. Investigating activity at the line-by-line level, we find a depth-dependent correlation between individual line RVs and the bulk RVs, further indicative of periodic suppression of convective blueshift causing the observed RV variability, rather than an orbiting planet. We conclude that the combined evidence of the activity correlations and depth dependence is consistent with a radial velocity signature dominated by a rotationally-modulated activity signal at a period of $\sim$42 days. We hypothesize that this activity signature is due to a combination of spots and convective blueshift suppression. The tools applied in our analysis are broadly applicable to other stars, and could help paint a more comprehensive picture of the manifestations of stellar activity in future Doppler RV surveys. |
| title | The death of Vulcan: NEID reveals the planet candidate orbiting HD 26965 is stellar activity |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17494 |