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A REVISED ESTIMATE OF THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS IN THE HABITABLE ZONES AROUND KEPLER M-DWARFS

Published 2013 March 25 © 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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Abstract

Because of their large numbers, low-mass stars may be the most abundant planet hosts in our Galaxy. Furthermore, terrestrial planets in the habitable zones (HZs) around M-dwarfs can potentially be characterized in the near future and hence may be the first such planets to be studied. Recently, Dressing & Charbonneau used Kepler data and calculated the frequency of terrestrial planets in the HZ of cool stars to be $0.15^{+0.13}_{-0.06}$ per star for Earth-size planets (0.5-1.4 R ). However, this estimate was derived using the Kasting et al. HZ limits, which were not valid for stars with effective temperatures lower than 3700 K. Here we update their result using new HZ limits from Kopparapu et al. for stars with effective temperatures between 2600 K and 7200 K, which includes the cool M stars in the Kepler target list. The new HZ boundaries increase the number of planet candidates in the HZ. Assuming Earth-size planets as 0.5-1.4 R , when we reanalyze their results, we obtain a terrestrial planet frequency of $0.48^{+0.12}_{-0.24}$ and $0.53^{+0.08}_{-0.17}$ planets per M-dwarf star for conservative and optimistic limits of the HZ boundaries, respectively. Assuming Earth-size planets as 0.5-2 R , the frequency increases to $0.51^{+0.10}_{-0.20}$ per star for the conservative estimate and to $0.61^{+0.07}_{-0.15}$ per star for the optimistic estimate. Within uncertainties, our optimistic estimates are in agreement with a similar optimistic estimate from the radial velocity survey of M-dwarfs ($0.41^{+0.54}_{-0.13}$). So, the potential for finding Earth-like planets around M stars may be higher than previously reported.

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1. INTRODUCTION

Advances in detection techniques and recent exoplanet surveys have discovered terrestrial planets in the habitable zone (HZ) of their parent star (Udry et al. 2007; Vogt et al. 2010, 2012; Pepe et al. 2011; Borucki et al. 2011, 2012; Bonfils et al. 2011; Tuomi et al. 2013; Anglada-Escudé et al. 2012) and it is expected that this number will greatly increase as time passes (Batalha et al. 2013). Classically, the HZ is defined as the circumstellar region in which a terrestrial mass planet (0.1  lesssimMlesssim  10 M), with favorable atmospheric conditions, can sustain liquid water on its surface (Huang 1959; Hart 1978; Kasting et al. 1993; Underwood et al. 2003; Selsis et al. 2007; Kaltenegger & Sasselov 2011; Kopparapu et al. 2013). Currently, more than 800 extra-solar planetary systems have been detected,5 and ~3000 additional candidate systems from the Kepler mission are waiting to be confirmed (Batalha et al. 2013).

One of the primary goals of the Kepler mission is to determine η, the frequency of Earth-size planets in and near the HZ of solar-type stars (Borucki et al. 2011). Such estimates have been made for potentially rocky planets using both radial velocity (RV; Bonfils et al. 2011) and Kepler data (Catanzarite & Shao 2011; Traub 2012; Dressing & Charbonneau 2013). Furthermore, many other studies have estimated in general the terrestrial planet frequency (Howard et al. 2010, 2012; Mayor et al. 2011; Swift et al. 2013) and the consensus from these studies is that there are more low-mass/smaller radii planets than high-mass/larger radii ones. Moreover, the frequency increases toward lower radii, larger orbital periods (Howard et al. 2012). The estimates of the occurrence rates of terrestrial planets with periods <50 days ranged from $0.23^{+0.16}_{-0.1}$ (Howard et al. 2010) around GKM stars using RV to $0.51^{+0.06}_{-0.05}$ (Dressing & Charbonneau 2013) around M stars using transit detection.

Specifically, to estimate η, one needs to know the boundaries of the HZs. Some studies did estimate this number for M-dwarfs using transit ($0.15^{+0.13}_{-0.06}$; Dressing & Charbonneau 2013) and RV ($0.41^{+0.54}_{-0.13}$; Bonfils et al. 2011) surveys. Traub (2012) estimated η to be 0.34 ± 0.14 for Kepler FGK stars, but this is based on an extrapolation of data for planets with orbital periods shorter than 42 days. These estimates of the occurrence rates were based on one-dimensional radiative–convective, cloud-free climate model calculations by Kasting et al. (1993). Several other studies (Underwood et al. 2003; Selsis et al. 2007) parameterized the Kasting et al. (1993) results to estimate relationships between HZ boundaries and stellar parameters for stars of different spectral types. Moreover, no uniform criterion of HZ limits was followed in applying them to calculate the occurrence rates, which can lead to comparing quantities that are not similar. For example, for the outer edge of the HZ, some studies (Dressing & Charbonneau 2013) used the first CO2 condensation limit and others (Bonfils et al. 2011) used Early Mars criterion.

Recently, Kopparapu et al. (2013) obtained new, improved estimates of the boundaries of the HZ by updating the Kasting et al. (1993) model with new H2O and CO2 absorption coefficients from updated line-by-line (LBL) databases such as HITRAN 2008 (Rothman et al. 2009) and HITEMP 2010 (Rothman et al. 2010). They estimated that, for our Sun, a conservative estimate of the inner HZ (IHZ) is at 0.99 AU and the outer HZ (OHZ) is at 1.70 AU. These values represent the "water loss" (moist greenhouse) limit at the inner edge and "maximum greenhouse" limit at the outer edge.

Kopparapu et al. (2013) have also estimated HZ boundaries around other stellar spectral types, including M stars, which are primary targets for ongoing surveys such as the Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF; Mahadevan et al. 2012) and MEarth (Nutzman & Charbonneau 2008) to discover potential habitable planets. Furthermore, M-dwarfs are also increasingly becoming important as Kepler targets to find terrestrial-size planets: the planetary orbital periods around these stars are shorter, the transit signal is larger, and there is a greater chance of detecting these planets than there is around a Sun-like star. Although M-dwarfs are fainter, the HZs are also closer for M-dwarfs, so it is likely that potential habitable planets may be discovered around nearby M-dwarfs in the near future with space-based characterization missions.

In this study, we apply the Kopparapu et al. (2013) HZ limits to estimate the occurrence rate of terrestrial-size (0.5–1.4 R and 0.5–2 R) planets in the HZ of M stars. We base our analysis on Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) who updated stellar parameters of 3897 low-mass Kepler target stars with temperatures below 4000 K using Darthmouth stellar evolutionary models (Dotter et al. 2008; Feiden et al. 2011). The outline of the Letter is as follows: in Section 2 we will revise the Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) calculations with new HZ estimates of Kopparapu et al. (2013), discuss the implications in Section 3, and conclude in Section 4.

2. ESTIMATE OF HABITABLE ZONE PLANET OCCURRENCE RATE AROUND M-DWARFS

From Howard et al. (2012) and Dressing & Charbonneau (2013), the planet occurrence rate over a given period (P) and radius (Rp) range is given by

Equation (1)

where ai is the semimajor axis of planet i, Rsstarf, i is the host star's radius of planet i, Nsstarf, i is the number of stars around which planet i could have been detected, and Np(Rp, P) is the number of planets with the radius Rp and period P. The ratio ai/Rsstarf, i is the inverse of the probability of transit orientation, which is considered to take non-transiting geometries into the estimation of occurrence rate.

In Table 2 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013), the authors provide stellar and planetary parameters of candidate KOIs that are considered to be in or near the HZ. To estimate the occurrence rate, Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) adopt the most conservative estimate of HZ limits from the Kasting et al. (1993) results: the "moist greenhouse" for the IHZ (0.95 AU) and the beginning of the CO2 condensation for the OHZ (1.37 AU for the Sun). Furthermore, they consider "Earth-size" as planets that are in the radius range 0.5–1.4 R. Based on these definitions, Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) consider two KOIs to be in the HZ from their Table 2: KOI 2626.01 and 1422.02. They then calculate occurrence rate of Earth-size planets in the HZ as $0.15^{+0.13}_{-0.06}$ planets per star.

This estimate may need to be updated, however, as the estimated width and the position of the HZ have changed recently, following new calculations by Kopparapu et al. (2013).6 According to these authors, HZs are farther out from their star than what has been calculated previously. This will have a significant effect on the occurrence rate derived by Dressing & Charbonneau (2013). Also, the "1st CO2 condensation" limit of Kasting et al. (1993) should now be disregarded, as it has been shown that CO2 clouds generally warm a planet's climate (Forget & Pierrehumbert 1997). Here we use the Kopparapu et al. (2013) HZ limits to derive revised estimates of occurrence rates of potentially habitable planets around low-mass stars. In order to put a lower and upper bound on η, we calculate two values for the occurrence rate based on the conservative and optimistic estimate of HZ limits as given in Kopparapu et al. (2013).

  • 1.  
    In a conservative estimate, the inner edge of the HZ is determined by the "moist-greenhouse" limit which is derived by assuming a fully saturated troposphere and negligible cloud feedback. Neither assumption is likely true in reality, but it is difficult to improve on this with a one-dimensional climate model because such models cannot accurately simulate clouds or relative humidity. The outer edge of the HZ is determined by the "maximum greenhouse" limit where a CO2-dominated atmosphere can produce maximum amount of greenhouse warming. Here also, the radiative warming by CO2 clouds is neglected, hence the limit is a conservative estimate.
  • 2.  
    In an optimistic scenario, the inner edge of the HZ boundary can be obtained by the "recent Venus" limit which is based on the observations of Venus by Magellan spacecraft, suggesting that liquid water has been absent from the surface of Venus for at least 1 Gyr (Solomon & Head 1991) or earlier. The Sun at that time was ~92% of the present-day luminosity, according to standard stellar evolutionary models (Baraffe et al. 1998; Bahcall et al. 2001, see Table 2). The current solar flux at Venus distance is 1.92 times that of Earth. Therefore, the solar flux received by Venus at that time was 0.92 × 1.92 = 1.76 times that of Earth. This empirical estimate of the IHZ edge in our solar system corresponds to an orbital distance of d = (1/1.76)0.5 = 0.75 AU for the present day. Note that this distance is greater than Venus' orbital distance of 0.72 AU because the constraint of surface water was imposed when the Sun was fainter. The outer-edge optimistic estimate is the "Early Mars" limit based on the observation that Early Mars was warm enough for liquid water to flow on its surface (Pollack et al. 1987; Bibring et al. 2006). Assuming the dried-up riverbeds and valley networks on Martian surface are 3.8 Gyr old, the solar luminosity at that time would have been ~75% of the present value (see Equation (1) in Gough 1981 and Table 2 in Bahcall et al. 2001). The present-day solar flux at Mars distance is 0.43 times that of Earth. Therefore, the solar flux received by Mars at 3.8 Gyr was 0.75 × 0.43 = 0.32 times that of Earth. The corresponding empirical OHZ limit for our solar system today, then, would be d = (1/0.32)0.5 ≈ 1.77 AU.

The optimistic HZ limits can be extrapolated to other stellar types with effective temperatures between 2600 K and 7200 K, by scaling them with the corresponding values of conservative HZ limits, as shown in Kopparapu et al. (2013).

To derive new rates from Equation (1), we need two quantities: (1) ai/Rsstarf, i for the planets in the HZs and (2) Nsstarf, i, the number of stars around which a planet that has the same size and receives the same insolation as those KOIs in the HZ could have been detected. The photometrically derived values of ai/Rsstarf, i are given in Table 5 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013). But Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) use the calculated ai/Rsstarf, i determined from the period of the planet and mass of the star (C. Dressing 2013, private communication). We use the Nsstarf, i values provided within the period–radii cells of Figure 15 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013), which give the number of stars around which a planet from the center of the grid cell would have been detected with a signal-to-noise ratio above 7.1σ. This should still give us nearly the same occurrence rate, or an underestimate of the actual value (see the next section). For example, for the two KOIs (2626.01 and 1422.02) that Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) consider to be in the HZ, when we use the center of the grid cell Nsstarf, i numbers (1822 and 872) from Figure 15 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013; instead of the Nsstarf, i values provided in Section 5.7) and use the period determined ai/Rsstarf, i as they did, we were able to reproduce their value of 0.15. Thus, our new occurrence rate (which uses center of the grid cell numbers) determined here probably is close to a value from a more rigorous estimate.

We will first calculate η using the Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) radius range of 0.5–1.4 R. Assuming conservative HZ limits7 from Kopparapu et al. (2013), four KOIs from Table 2 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) should be in the HZ based on the insolation fluxes (Figure 1): KOI 1686.01, 2418.01, 2626.01, and 1422.02. We use the photometric ai/Rsstarf, i from Table 5 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013), rather than the calculated ai/Rsstarf, i from the period and stellar mass. For a typical planet candidate, the photometric ai/Rsstarf, i is 85% of the ai/Rsstarf, i from the period and stellar mass. Therefore, our value tends to be at the lower end of the occurrence rate estimate. The corresponding ai/Rsstarf, i for these candidates from Table 5 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) are 102.482, 116.837, 36.283, and 51.985, respectively. The corresponding Nsstarf, i values from the center of the grid cells of Figure 15 are 353, 994, 1822, and 872, respectively. Using Equation (1), we get the conservative estimate of η for low-mass stars to be $0.48^{+0.12}_{-0.24}$ per star.

Figure 1.

Figure 1. Incident stellar flux on a planet as a function of stellar effective temperature, Teff. The green shaded region is the conservative HZ. The optimistic HZ limits are recent Venus (solid red curve) and Early Mars (solid blue curve). Two of the terrestrial-size KOIs (1422.02 and 2626.01) that are in the Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) HZ are also shown.

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An optimistic estimate of the occurrence rate can also be derived based on the recent Venus and Early Mars limit from the Kopparapu et al. (2013) results. Assuming these limits, six KOIs from Table 2 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) should be in the HZ (Figure 1): KOI 1686.01, 2418.01, 2626.01, 1422.02, 2650.01, and 886.03. The corresponding photometric determined ai/Rsstarf, i for these candidates from Table 5 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) are 102.482, 116.837, 36.283, 51.985, 54.052, and 39.246. The Nsstarf, i values from Figure 15 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) are 353, 994, 1822, 872, 1822, and 2336. Using Equation (1), the optimistic estimate of the occurrence rate of Earth-size planets in the HZs around low-mass stars is $0.53^{+0.08}_{-0.17}$ per star.

Instead of assuming 0.5–1.4 R as "Earth-size," we will also calculate occurrence rate extending the radius range from 0.5 to 2 R. Planets with radius >1.4 R are thought to have either homogeneous composition of water ice, silicate, or iron, or some differential composition of these compounds (Seager et al. 2007; Rogers et al. 2011; Lopez et al. 2012). This will then add KOI 854.01 in the conservative rate estimate (the total number of KOIs in the HZ is then five) and KOI 250.04 in the optimistic rate estimate (the total HZ KOIs is eight). The corresponding ai/Rsstarf, i and Nsstarf, i for these additional candidates from Table 5 and Figure 15 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) are 90.045 and 2991, respectively, for KOI 854.01; and 157.259 and 3287, respectively, for KOI 250.04.

Using this expanded definition of Earth-size (0.5–2 R), a conservative estimate of the occurrence rate of Earth-size planets in the HZs around M-dwarfs is $0.51^{+0.10}_{-0.20}$ per star. An optimistic estimate on the occurrence rate is $0.61^{+0.07}_{-0.15}$ per star.

3. DISCUSSION

The occurrence rate estimates derived in the previous section indicate that terrestrial-size planets in HZs around low-mass stars are more frequent than previously thought. A couple of caveats are to be noted.

  • 1.  
    The KOIs are not confirmed planets. The calculated false positive rates for Kepler candidates in our relevant radius bin range from 12.3% (Fressin et al. 2013) to ~10% (Morton & Johnson 2011). Therefore, we may be overestimating η. Furthermore, the uncertainties on the fluxes are large (Figure 1), so some may not be in the HZ.
  • 2.  
    On the other hand, we use photometrically derived ai/Rsstarf, i given in Table 5 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013). This may underestimate our occurrence rate because Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) use calculated ai/Rsstarf, i from orbital periods and stellar mass (C. Dressing 2013, private communication), and the photometric values are ~85% of the derived values. So the net effect from points 1 and 2 may not change significantly our estimate of η.
  • 3.  
    As mentioned above, we do not calculate number of stars around which a planet that has the same size and receives the same insolation as the ones in the HZ could have been detected; we instead use the cell numbers from Figure 15 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013), which gives the number of stars around which a hypothetical planet that has the same radius and period as the center of the grid cell would have been detected with a signal-to-noise ratio above 7.1σ. There is no reason to assume that the KOIs considered here to be in the HZ are at the center of the grid cell (in fact, they are not). This offset probably overestimates our value of Nsstarf, i in Equation (1).

For example, in Section 5.7 of Dressing & Charbonneau (2013), they calculate Nsstarf, i values of 2853, 813, and 2131 for KOIs 854.01, 1422.02, and 2626.01, respectively. These numbers are generally lower in value than the center of the grid cells values we use from Figure 15 (2991, 872, 1822, respectively), except for KOI 2626.01 (an increase of 17%). If this is the general trend, i.e., if we are overestimating Nsstarf, i systematically, then our calculated occurrence rates of terrestrial planets in the HZ around M-dwarfs can be considered as a lower bound to the actual value. Nevertheless, we tested to see how much the rate would change if we change Nsstarf, i. It should be noted that Nsstarf, i (at same insolation) is most likely smaller than Nsstarf, i (at same period) for the planet candidates in the HZ because most of those planet candidates orbit stars that are cooler than the typical Kepler M-dwarf. Since there is one KOI (2626.01) for which we underestimate Nsstarf, i by ~17%, and could potentially decrease our occurrence rate estimate, we rounded off and added 20% of the respective Nsstarf, i values to all the KOIs that are in the HZ. After performing this calculation, for the radius range 0.5–1.4 R, the conservative estimate changed from $0.48^{+0.12}_{-0.24}$ to $0.41^{+0.10}_{-0.20}$ per star. The optimistic estimate changed from $0.53^{+0.08}_{-0.17}$ to $0.44^{+0.07}_{-0.14}$ per star. In the extended radius range for Earth-size (0.5–2.0 R), the conservative estimate changed from $0.51^{+0.10}_{-0.20}$ per star to $0.43^{+0.08}_{-0.17}$, and the optimistic estimate changed from $0.61^{+0.07}_{-0.15}$ per star to $0.52^{+0.06}_{-0.13}$.

Note that even though adding 20% to Nsstarf, i lowers our occurrence rate, we are underestimating ai/Rsstarf, i on an average of 15% or more. Furthermore, we showed that we were able to reproduce the Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) estimate even if we use the center of the grid cell value for Nsstarf, i. Therefore, a more rigorous analysis to determine the occurrence rate from Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) would likely produce a similar result as ours.

Bonfils et al. (2011) studied 102 southern nearby M-dwarfs using ESO/HARPS spectrograph and obtained the frequency of terrestrial mass planets (1–10 M) in the HZ to be $0.41^{+0.54}_{-0.13}$. Note that they consider two planets to be in the HZ, Gl 581d and Gl 667Cc, using optimistic limits of the HZ (recent Venus and Early Mars) from Selsis et al. (2007). If we also use optimistic HZ estimates, we find that both the planets are in the HZ. Our optimistic estimate of η ranges from $0.53^{+0.08}_{-0.17}$ to $0.61^{+0.07}_{-0.15}$ per star, depending on if the mass range in Bonfils et al. (2011) is applicable to terrestrial sizes of 0.5–1.4 R radius or 0.5–2 R radius. Nevertheless, our estimates of the occurrence rates of HZ terrestrial planets around M-dwarfs are in good agreement with independently derived RV estimates, within the error bars.

4. CONCLUSIONS

The purpose of our analysis is to outline the significant increase in the terrestrial planet occurrence rate in the HZs of M-dwarfs compared to Dressing & Charbonneau (2013). We have obtained revised estimates based on Dressing & Charbonneau (2013) estimates of 3987 Kepler M-dwarfs that are cooler than 4000 K in Q1–Q6 data. Applying new HZ results from Kopparapu et al. (2013) to Earth-size planets (0.5–1.4 R), we calculate that a conservative estimate of the occurrence rate of Earth-size planets in the HZs around M-dwarfs is $0.48^{+0.12}_{-0.24}$ planets per star. The optimistic estimates indicate that the occurrence rate increases to $0.53^{+0.08}_{-0.17}$ planets per star. If we extend the definition of Earth-size to planets in the radius range 0.5–2.0 R, the conservative estimate increases to $0.51^{+0.10}_{-0.20}$ per star, and the optimistic estimate increases to $0.61^{+0.07}_{-0.15}$ per star. As discussed in our Letter, our results probably are close or underestimate the actual occurrence rate of Earth-size planets in the HZs around M-dwarfs. Furthermore, our optimistic value of η quoted above is in agreement (within uncertainties) with a similar estimate, $0.41^{+0.54}_{-0.13}$, from Bonfils et al. (2011) ESO/HARPS survey of 102 M-dwarf stars indicating that the frequency of terrestrial planets in the HZs of M-dwarfs may be higher than previously reported.

The author is grateful to Courtney Dressing for discussions leading to this paper. The author thanks James Kasting, Steinn Sigurdsson, Eric Feigelson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Jason Wright, Chester Harman, and Ramses Ramirez for their valuable input and the anonymous referee whose comments improved the manuscript. R.K. gratefully acknowledges funding from NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory lead team, supported by NASA under cooperative agreement NNH05ZDA001C, and the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center.

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