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Tennessee State University

2001

Planetary systems

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No Planet For Hd 166435, Didier Queloz, Gregory W. Henry, Jean-Pierre Sivan, Sallie L. Baliunas, Jean-Luc Beuzit, Robert A. Donahue, Michel Mayor, Dominique Naef, Christian Perrier, Stephane Udry Nov 2001

No Planet For Hd 166435, Didier Queloz, Gregory W. Henry, Jean-Pierre Sivan, Sallie L. Baliunas, Jean-Luc Beuzit, Robert A. Donahue, Michel Mayor, Dominique Naef, Christian Perrier, Stephane Udry

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The G0 V star HD 166435 has been observed by the fiber-fed spectrograph ELODIE as one of the targets in the large extra-solar planet survey that we are conducting at the Observatory of Haute-Provence. We detected coherent, low-amplitude, radial-velocity variations with a period of 3.7987 days, suggesting a possible close-in planetary companion. Subsequently, we initiated a series of high-precision photometric observations to search for possible planetary transits and an additional series of Ca II H and K observations to measure the level of surface magnetic activity and to look for possible rotational modulation. Surprisingly, we found the star to be …


First Results From The Anglo-Australian Planet Search: A Brown Dwarf Candidate And A 51 Peg-Like Planet, Chris G. Tinney, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Hugh R. A. Jones, Alan J. Penny, Steve S. Vogt, Kevin Apps, Gregory W. Henry Apr 2001

First Results From The Anglo-Australian Planet Search: A Brown Dwarf Candidate And A 51 Peg-Like Planet, Chris G. Tinney, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Hugh R. A. Jones, Alan J. Penny, Steve S. Vogt, Kevin Apps, Gregory W. Henry

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We report results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search, a survey for planets around 200 solar-type stars in the southern hemisphere that is being carried out on the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope. Limiting Doppler precisions of 3 m s-1 have been demonstrated from the first 2.5 years of operation, making this the highest-precision planet search in the southern hemisphere. From these data we report results for two new substellar detections. The first is a 51 Peg-like planet around the star HD 179949 with M sin i = 0.84 MJUP. Photometric study reveals this is not a transiting system. The second is …