Limits on low-frequency radio emission from southern exoplanets with the Murchison Widefield Array
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Murphy, Tara; Bell, Martin E.; Kaplan, David L.; Gaensler, B. M.; Offringa, Andre R.; Lenc, Emil; Hurley-Walker, Natasha; Bernardi, G.; Bowman, J. D.; Briggs, F.; Cappallo, Roger J; Corey, Brian E; Deshpande, A. A.; Emrich, D.; Goeke, Robert F; Greenhill, L. J.; Hazelton, B. J.; Hewitt, Jacqueline N; Johnston-Hollitt, M.; Kasper, J. C.; Kratzenberg, E.; Lonsdale, Colin John; Lynch, M. J.; McWhirter, S. R.; Mitchell, D. A.; Morales, M. F.; Morgan, Edward H; Oberoi, D.; Ord, S. M.; Prabu, T.; Rogers, Alan E E; Roshi, D. A.; Shankar, N. Udaya; Srivani, K. S.; Subrahmanyan, R.; Tingay, S. J.; Waterson, M.; Wayth, R. B.; Webster, R. L.; Whitney, Alan R; Williams, A.; Williams, C. L.; ... Show more Show less
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We present the results of a survey for low-frequency radio emission from 17 known exoplanetary systems with the Murchison Widefield Array. This sample includes 13 systems that have not previously been targeted with radio observations. We detected no radio emission at 154 MHz, and put 3τ upper limits in the range 15.2-112.5 mJy on this emission. We also searched for circularly polarized emission and made no detections, obtaining 3τ upper limits in the range 3.4-49.9 mJy. These are comparable with the best low-frequency radio limits in the existing literature and translate to luminosity limits of between 1.2 × 10¹⁴ and 1.4 × 10¹⁷ Wif the emission is assumed to be 100 per cent circularly polarized. These are the first results from a larger program to systematically search for exoplanetary emission with the MWA.
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2014-11Department
Haystack Observatory; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchJournal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Murphy, T. et al. “Limits on Low-Frequency Radio Emission from Southern Exoplanets with the Murchison Widefield Array.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 446, 3 (November 2014): 2560–2565 © 2014 The Authors
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0035-8711
1365-2966
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