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2005

Planetary systems

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The N2k Consortium. Ii. A Transiting Hot Saturn Around Hd 149026 With A Large Dense Core, Bun'ei Sato, Debra A. Fischer, Gregory W. Henry, Gregory Laughlin, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Steve Vogt, Peter Bodenheimer, Shigeru Ida, Eri Toyota, Aaron S. Wolf, Jeff A. Valenti, Louis J. Boyd, John A. Johnson, Jason T. Wright, Mark Ammons, Sarah E. Robinson, Jay Strader, Chris Mccarthy, Kok Leong Tah, Dante Minniti Nov 2005

The N2k Consortium. Ii. A Transiting Hot Saturn Around Hd 149026 With A Large Dense Core, Bun'ei Sato, Debra A. Fischer, Gregory W. Henry, Gregory Laughlin, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Steve Vogt, Peter Bodenheimer, Shigeru Ida, Eri Toyota, Aaron S. Wolf, Jeff A. Valenti, Louis J. Boyd, John A. Johnson, Jason T. Wright, Mark Ammons, Sarah E. Robinson, Jay Strader, Chris Mccarthy, Kok Leong Tah, Dante Minniti

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Doppler measurements from Subaru and Keck have revealed radial velocity variations in the V = 8.15, G0 IV star HD 149026 consistent with a Saturn-mass planet in a 2.8766 day orbit. Photometric observations at Fairborn Observatory have detected three complete transit events with depths of 0.003 mag at the predicted times of conjunction. HD 149026 is now the second-brightest star with a transiting extrasolar planet. The mass of the star, based on interpolation of stellar evolutionary models, is 1.3 ± 0.1 M☉; together with the Doppler amplitude K1 = 43.3 m s-1, we derive a planet mass M sin i …


System Parameters Of The Transiting Extrasolar Planet Hd 209458b, Robert A. Wittenmyer, William F. Welsh, Jerome A. Orosz, A. B. Schultz, Wayne Kinzel, M. Kochte, Frederick Bruhweiler, David Bennum, Gregory W. Henry, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, R. Paul Butler, Steve Vogt Oct 2005

System Parameters Of The Transiting Extrasolar Planet Hd 209458b, Robert A. Wittenmyer, William F. Welsh, Jerome A. Orosz, A. B. Schultz, Wayne Kinzel, M. Kochte, Frederick Bruhweiler, David Bennum, Gregory W. Henry, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, R. Paul Butler, Steve Vogt

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We derive improved system parameters for the HD 209458 system using a model that simultaneously fits both photometric transit and radial velocity observations. The photometry consists of previous Hubble Space Telescope STIS and FGS observations, 12 I-band transits observed between 2001 and 2003 with the Mount Laguna Observatory 1 m telescope, and six Strömgren b + y transits observed between 2001 and 2004 with two of the Automatic Photometric Telescopes at Fairborn Observatory. The radial velocities were derived from Keck HIRES observations. The model properly treats the orbital dynamics of the system and thus yields robust and physically self-consistent solutions. …


A ~7.5 M⊕ Planet Orbiting The Nearby Star, Gj 876*, Eugenio Rivera, Jack J. Lissauer, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Steve Vogt, Debra A. Fischer, Timothy M. Brown, Gregory Laughlin, Gregory W. Henry Oct 2005

A ~7.5 M⊕ Planet Orbiting The Nearby Star, Gj 876*, Eugenio Rivera, Jack J. Lissauer, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Steve Vogt, Debra A. Fischer, Timothy M. Brown, Gregory Laughlin, Gregory W. Henry

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High-precision, high-cadence radial velocity monitoring over the past 8 yr at the W. M. Keck Observatory reveals evidence for a third planet orbiting the nearby (4.69 pc) dM4 star GJ 876. The residuals of three-body Newtonian fits, which include GJ 876 and Jupiter-mass companions b and c, show significant power at a periodicity of 1.9379 days. Self-consistently fitting the radial velocity data with a model that includes an additional body with this period significantly improves the quality of the fit. These four-body (three-planet) Newtonian fits find that the minimum mass of companion "d" is m sin i = 5.89 ± …


Five New Multicomponent Planetary Systems, Steve Vogt, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, Gregory W. Henry, Gregory Laughlin, Jason T. Wright, John A. Johnson Oct 2005

Five New Multicomponent Planetary Systems, Steve Vogt, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, Gregory W. Henry, Gregory Laughlin, Jason T. Wright, John A. Johnson

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We report Doppler measurements for six nearby G- and K-type main-sequence stars that show multiple low-mass companions, at least one of which has planetary mass. One system has three planets, the fourth triple-planet system known around a normal star, and another has an extremely low minimum mass of 18 M⊕. HD 128311 (K0 V) has two planets (one previously known) with minimum masses (M sin i) of 2.18MJ and 3.21MJ and orbital periods of 1.26 and 2.54 yr, suggesting a possible 2 : 1 resonance. For HD 108874 (G5 V), the velocities reveal two planets (one previously known) having minimum …


Five New Extrasolar Planets, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steve Vogt, Debra A. Fischer, Gregory W. Henry, Gregory Laughlin, Jason T. Wright, John A. Johnson Jan 2005

Five New Extrasolar Planets, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steve Vogt, Debra A. Fischer, Gregory W. Henry, Gregory Laughlin, Jason T. Wright, John A. Johnson

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We report multiple Doppler measurements of five nearby FGK main-sequence stars and subgiants obtained during the past 4-6 yr at the Keck Observatory. These stars, namely, HD 183263, HD 117207, HD 188015, HD 45350, and HD 99492, all exhibit coherent variations in their Doppler shifts consistent with a planet in Keplerian motion. The five new planets occupy known realms of planetary parameter space, including a wide range of orbital eccentricities, e = 0-0.78, and semimajor axes, 0.1-3.8 AU, that provide further statistical information about the true distributions of various properties of planetary systems. One of the planets, HD 99492b, has …