Speckle imaging of KOI binary stars with the WIYN telescope

Nicole M. Hess; Patrick R. Thayer; Elliott P. Horch; James W. Davidson Jr.; Brian J. Baptista; Mark E. Everett; Steve B. Howell

doi:10.1117/12.2313008

9 July 2018 Speckle imaging of KOI binary stars with the WIYN telescope

Nicole M. Hess, Patrick R. Thayer, Elliott P. Horch, James W. Davidson Jr., Brian J. Baptista, Mark E. Everett, Steve B. Howell

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Proceedings Volume 10701, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI; 107012E (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313008
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

Binary star systems where one of the stars is an exoplanet host appear to be more common than expected prior to the Kepler mission. The Kepler mission and subsequent ground-based follow-up work have revealed a number of Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) that have nearby stellar companions (within ~1 arcsec). KOIs with stellar companions and at least one suspected exoplanet were selected for this work. Recent work on these stars has mainly focused on placing the companions on the H-R diagram and inferring if they are likely to be gravitationally bound based on whether their locations are consistent with a common isochrone. However, we have been observing these KOI double stars with speckle imaging over several years and are now in a position to assess whether these systems have components with a common proper motion, and can be seen as physically associated on that basis. We will give sample results of KOI double stars that are in fact common proper motion pairs. We compare our results with estimates of the multiplicity rate of exoplanet hosts from other methods and comment on the use of our data for constraining orbital parameters at this point, particularly the inclination angle. For transit observations, the inclination of the planetary orbit is already known, and the relationship between planetary and stellar orbital planes could have implications for star and planet formation.

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Nicole M. Hess, Patrick R. Thayer, Elliott P. Horch, James W. Davidson Jr., Brian J. Baptista, Mark E. Everett, and Steve B. Howell "Speckle imaging of KOI binary stars with the WIYN telescope", Proc. SPIE 10701, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI, 107012E (9 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313008

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