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A. Demirkol

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Planetary systems in the light of asteroseismology: metallicity threshold for the planetary systems and age-metallicity relation

We compiled data for 127 hosts (plus six candidates) and used them as constraints to construct interior models of the hosts using the {\small MESA} code. Two significant conclusions emerge from these models. First, except for a few stars, the hosts' metallicity ($Z_0$) is greater than 0.007. This suggests a possible suppression of the occurrence of planets below $Z_0\approx0.007$. Second, it concerns how chemical evolution unfolds in the galactic disc. For a given $Z_0$ value, considering the oldest stars, there is a linear relationship between $Z_0$ and age ($t_9$). This line is around $t_9=13.4$ Gyr at $Z_0=0$, a value consistent with the age of the Galaxy. The linear relationship continues until around $t_9=6$ Gyr, and the maximum value of $Z_0$ remains constant between $t_9=2-6$ Gyr. We further modelled 12 hosts classified as red clump (RC) stars in the literature, explicitly accounting for mass loss along the red giant branch. These models highlight the critical role of mass-loss assumptions in determining the initial masses and ages of RC hosts, and their implications for the survival and evolution of close-in planets. Another key outcome of this study is the discovery of the relationship between $Z_0$ and the observed metallicity ($Z_{\rm s}$) for the hosts. We obtain a useful expression for $Z_0$, the input parameter for the models, as a function of stellar mass, radius, and $Z_{\rm s}$. This expression can be used to estimate $Z_0$ based on the reduced surface metallicity due to microscopic diffusion. We also derive an expression for planetary mass relative to the orbital semimajor axis and host mass. This expression may indicate a mass distribution near the inner disc where these planets formed, except for hot-Jupiters. Planet radii appear to depend on the planet's mass and irradiation energy, as well as the orbital period.

astro-ph.SR

Scaling slowly rotating asteroids by stellar occultations

As evidenced by recent survey results, majority of asteroids are slow rotators (P>12 h), but lack spin and shape models due to selection bias. This bias is skewing our overall understanding of the spins, shapes, and sizes of asteroids, as well as of their other properties. Also, diameter determinations for large (>60km) and medium-sized asteroids (between 30 and 60 km) often vary by over 30% for multiple reasons. Our long-term project is focused on a few tens of slow rotators with periods of up to 60 hours. We aim to obtain their full light curves and reconstruct their spins and shapes. We also precisely scale the models, typically with an accuracy of a few percent. We used wide sets of dense light curves for spin and shape reconstructions via light-curve inversion. Precisely scaling them with thermal data was not possible here because of poor infrared data: large bodies are too bright for WISE mission. Therefore, we recently launched a campaign among stellar occultation observers, to scale these models and to verify the shape solutions, often allowing us to break the mirror pole ambiguity. The presented scheme resulted in shape models for 16 slow rotators, most of them for the first time. Fitting them to stellar occultations resolved previous inconsistencies in size determinations. For around half of the targets, this fitting also allowed us to identify a clearly preferred pole solution, thus removing the ambiguity inherent to light-curve inversion. We also address the influence of the uncertainty of the shape models on the derived diameters. Overall, our project has already provided reliable models for around 50 slow rotators. Such well-determined and scaled asteroid shapes will, e.g. constitute a solid basis for density determinations when coupled with mass information. Spin and shape models continue to fill the gaps caused by various biases.

astro-ph.EP