First results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search: A brown dwarf candidate and a 51 peg-like planet

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作者
Tinney, CG
Butler, RP
Marcy, GW
Jones, HRA
Penny, AJ
Vogt, SS
Apps, K
Henry, GW
机构
[1] Anglo Australian Observ, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
[2] Carnegie Inst Washington, Dept Terr Magnetism, Washington, DC 20015 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[4] San Francisco State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
[5] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Astrophys Res Inst, Birkenhead CH41 1LD, Merseyside, England
[6] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[7] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Univ Calif Observ, Lick Observ, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[8] Univ Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, E Sussex, England
[9] Tennessee State Univ, Ctr Excellence Informat Syst, Nashville, TN 37203 USA
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2001年 / 551卷 / 01期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
planetary systems; stars; individual; (HD; 164427; HD; 179949); low-mass; brown dwarfs;
D O I
10.1086/320097
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
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 M-JUP. Photometric study reveals this is not a transiting system. The second is a brown dwarf or very low mass star companion to HD 164427 in an eccentric orbit with Msin i = 46 M-JUP. Hipparcos data indicate this latter object is unlikely to have a mass greater than 0.18 M..
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