Abundance distribution of stars with planets

Abundances in Fe, C, Na, Al, Si, Ca, Ti and Ni are presented, along with Stroemgen photometric metallicities. This study is one of several recent studies examining the metallicities of a sample of planet-host and non-planet-host stars that were obtained from a single sample, and analysed in an identical manner, providing an unbiased estimate of the metallicity trends for planet-bearing stars.

We find that non-parametric tests of the distribution of metallicities for planet-host and non-planet-host stars are significantly different at a level of 99.4 per cent confidence. We confirm the previously observed trend for planet-host stars to have higher mean metallicities than non-planet-host stars, with a mean metallicity for planet-host stars of [Fe/H]=0.06+/-0.03dex compared with [Fe/H]=0.09+/-0.01dex for non-host-stars in our sample.