Signatures of planets and Galactic subpopulations in solar analogs. Precise chemical abundances with neural networks
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Jun 25, 2025
Abstract
The aim of this work is to obtain precise atmospheric parameters and chemical
abundances automatically for solar twins and analogs to find signatures of
exoplanets, as well as to assess how peculiar the Sun is compared to these
stars and to analyze any possible fine structures in the Galactic thin disk. We
developed a neural network (NN) algorithm using Python to obtain these
parameters for a sample of 99 solar twins and solar analogs previously studied
in the literature from normalized high-quality spectra from HARPS, with a
resolving power of R $\sim$ 115000 and a signal-to-noise ratio S/N > 400. We
obtained precise atmospheric parameters and abundance ratios [X/Fe] of 20
chemical elements (Li, C, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni,
Cu, Zn, Y, and Ba). The results are in line with the literature, with average
differences and standard deviations of $(2 \pm 27)$ K for T$_{\rm eff}$, $(0.00
\pm 0.06)$ dex for log g, $(0.00 \pm 0.02)$ dex for [Fe/H], $(-0.01 \pm 0.05)$
km s$^{-1}$ for microturbulence velocity, $(0.02 \pm 0.08)$ km s$^{-1}$ for the
macro turbulence velocity, and $(-0.12 \pm 0.26)$ km s$^{-1}$ for the projected
rotational velocity (vsin$i$). Regarding the chemical abundances, most of the
elements agree with the literature within 0.01 - 0.02 dex. The abundances were
corrected from the effects of the Galactic chemical evolution and analyzed with
the condensation temperature (T$_{\rm cond}$) to verify whether the stars
presented depletion of refractories compared to volatiles. We found that the
Sun is more depleted in refractory elements compared to volatiles than 89% of
the studied solar analogs, with a significance of 9.5$\sigma$ when compared to
the stars without detected exoplanets. We also found the possible presence of
three subpopulations in the solar analogs: one Cu-rich, one Cu-poor, and the
last one slightly older and poor in Na.