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ASTROMETRIC MONITORING OF THE HR 8799 PLANETS: ORBIT CONSTRAINTS FROM SELF-CONSISTENT MEASUREMENTS

  • Authors: Q. M. Konopacky, C. Marois, B. A. Macintosh, R. Galicher, T. S. Barman, S. A. Metchev, and B. Zuckerman

2016 The Astronomical Journal 152 28.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Left: a subset of randomly selected orbits for each planet that are within 3σ of the best fit solution. Crossing orbits are still allowed by the data, while stability requirements would suggest that such orbits are unlikely to be the true orbits of the planets. Right: a subset of randomly selected orbits where the Hill radius of the planet does not come within the Hill radius of any other planets. The distribution of orbital parameters for these “non-crossing” orbits are shown in Figure 9.

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