An m sin i = 24 Earth Mass Planetary Companion To The Nearby M Dwarf GJ 176

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2007-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/0709.0944v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages preprint, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/524703

We report the detection of a planetary companion with a minimum mass of m sin i = 0.0771 M_Jup = 24.5 M_Earth to the nearby (d = 9.4 pc) M2.5V star GJ 176. The star was observed as part of our M dwarf planet search at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). The detection is based on 5 years of high-precision differential radial velocity (RV) measurements using the High-Resolution-Spectrograph (HRS). The orbital period of the planet is 10.24 d. GJ 176 thus joins the small (but increasing) sample of M dwarfs hosting short-periodic planets with minimum masses in the Neptune-mass range. Low mass planets could be relatively common around M dwarfs and the current detections might represent the tip of a rocky planet population.

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