2025ApJ...986..178Q

Whether the presence of planets affects the lithium (Li) abundance of their host stars is still an open question. To investigate the difference in the Li abundance between planet-host stars (HSs) and isolated stars (ISs) with no detected planets, we analyze a large sample of stars with temperatures ranging from 4600 to 6600 K and metallicity ranging from -0.55 to +0.50. The sample consists of 279 HSs whose spectra were taken from the California-Kepler Survey, which followed up planets detected by Kepler, and 171 ISs whose spectra were taken from the Keck archive. The non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) effects were taken into consideration. It is found that the distributions of Li abundances in both the HS and IS groups are generally consistent with each other. This suggests that the presence of Kepler-like planets does not have a significant impact on Li depletion. We also found that the non-LTE corrections cannot be neglected for stars with A(Li) over ∼2.5 dex.