2018英特爾ISEF學科最佳作品摘要：物理與天文學 Best of Category Abstract: PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

獲獎作品基本信息

年份	2018
學科	物理與天文學 PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
學校	T.C. Williams High School
國家/州	VA，United States of America

獲獎作品名稱

Finding Exoplanets by Assessing the Dynamical Packing of Kepler Three- and Four-Candidate Systems

獲獎作品摘要

Barnes’ and Raymond’s Packed Planetary System (PPS) hypothesis postulates that planetary formation is efficient and creates dynamically packed planetary systems that cannot contain additional planets. Here I look for unpacked spaces in Kepler multi-candidate systems that should, according to a PPS corollary, contain planets. In doing so, a “roadmap” was created to find potential unidentified planets. Previous research suggests that a system’s dynamical packedness can be quantified using the dynamical spacing ??: the number of mutual Hill radii between adjacent planets (a “planet pair”). Using previously proposed values for minimum ?? (10, 12.3, and 21.7) required for planet pair orbital stability, I determine whether planet pairs in Kepler multi-candidate systems could host an intermediate body (an “unpacked pair”). For each Kepler unpacked pair, the maximum mass of an intermediate body that the pair could host while remaining in stable orbits (“mass capacity”) and the semimajor axis at which this mass could be hosted were calculated. Next, the probable masses were determined. Known packed planet triplets were surveyed to determine the mass capacity each middle planet uses. The results suggest that there could be as many as 254 unidentified intermediate planets assuming a minimum ?? = 12.3. Median mass efficiencies suggest 20% could be Earth-sized and 33% could be Super Earth-sized. The predicted mass and semimajor axis for these potential planets may facilitate detection by characterizing expected transit and radial velocity signals. Ultimately, such observation-based evidence could support or dispute PPS.

 

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學科簡介：物理與天文學 PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Physics is the science of matter and energy and of interactions between the two. Astronomy is the study of anything in the universe beyond the Earth.

Subcategories:

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics?(AMO):?The?study of atoms, simple molecules, electrons, light, and their interactions.? Projects studying?non-solid state?lasers and masers also belong in this subcategory.

Astronomy and Cosmology?(AST):?The study of space,? the universe as a whole, including its origins and evolution, the physical properties of objects in space and computational astronomy.

Biological Physics?(BIP):?The study of the physics of biological processes and systems.

Condensed Matter and Materials?(MAT):?The study of the properties of solids and liquids. Topics such as superconductivity, semi-conductors, complex fluids, and thin films are studied.

Mechanics?(MEC):?Classical physics and mechanics, including the macroscopic study of forces, vibrations and flows; on solid, liquid and gaseous materials.?Projects studying aerodynamics or hydrodynamics also belong in this subcategory.

Nuclear and Particle Physics?(NUC):?The study of the physical properties of the atomic nucleus and of fundamental particles and the forces of their interaction.?Projects developing particle detectors also belong in this subcategory.

Theoretical, Computational, and Quantum Physics?(THE):?The study of nature, phenomena and the laws of physics employing mathematical or computational methods?rather than experimental processes.

Other?(OTH):?Studies that cannot be assigned to one of the above subcategories. If the project involves multiple subcategories, the principal subcategory should be chosen instead of Other.