Probing the Survival of Planetary Systems in Globular Clusters with Tidal Disruption Events
arXiv:1908.06978 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab44d1
Abstract
Among the growing list of confirmed exoplanets, the number of planets identified in dense star clusters remains sparse. Previous analyses have suggested this may be due in part to dynamical interactions that unbind large fractions of planets from their host stars, limiting the survival of planetary systems in clusters. Thus, alternative detection strategies may be necessary to study planets in clusters that may no longer be bound to a host star. Here, we use the cluster Monte Carlo code CMC to explore the evolution of planetary systems in dense star clusters. Depending on a number of initial conditions, we show that of primordial planetary systems are broken through dynamical encounters over a cluster's full lifetime, populating clusters with "free-floating" planets. Furthermore, a large number () of planets are ejected from their host cluster through strong dynamical encounters and/or tidal loss. Additionally, we show that planets naturally mix with stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in the central regions of their host cluster. As a consequence, up to a few hundreds of planets will be tidally disrupted through close passages of BHs. We show these BH-planet tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur in clusters at a rate of up to in a Milky Way-type galaxy. We predict BH-planet TDEs should be detected by upcoming transient surveys such as LSST at a rate of roughly a few events per year. The observed rate of BH-planet TDEs would place new constraints upon the formation and survival of both planetary systems and BHs in dense star clusters. Additionally, depending on various assumptions including the initial number of planets and their orbital properties, we predict that typical globular clusters may contain a few dynamically-formed NS-planet systems at present as well as up to roughly 100 dynamically-formed WD-planet systems.
arXiv comment18 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ. Comments welcome
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