• Title of article

    Do “isolated” planetary mass objects orbit mirror stars?

  • Author/Authors

    Foot، نويسنده , , R and Ignatiev، نويسنده , , A.Yu and Volkas، نويسنده , , R.R، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    195
  • To page
    198
  • Abstract
    We propose that the “isolated” planetary mass objects observed by Zapatero Osorio et al. in the σ Orionis cluster might actually be in orbit around invisible stellar mass companions such as mirror stars. Mirror matter is expected to exist if parity is an unbroken symmetry of nature. Future observations can test this idea by looking for a periodic Doppler shift in the radiation emitted by the planets. The fact that the observations show an inverse dependence between the abundance of the these objects and their mass may argue in favour of the mirror matter hypothesis.
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Serial Year
    2002
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    1328872