Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
MNRAS submitted
Scientific paper
The Doppler wobble induced by the extra-solar planet HD 134987b was first detected by data from the Keck Telescope nearly a decade ago, and was subsequently confirmed by data from the Anglo-Australian Telescope. However, as more data have been acquired for this star over the years since, the quality of a single Keplerian fit to that data has been getting steadily worse. The best fit single Keplerian to the 138 Keck and AAT observations now in hand has an root-mean-square (RMS) scatter of 6.6 m/s. This is significantly in excess of both the instrumental precision achieved by both the Keck and Anglo-Australian Planet Searches for stars of this magnitude, and of the jitter expected for a star with the properties of HD134987. However, a double Keplerian (i.e. dual planet) fit delivers a significantly reduced RMS of 3.3 m/s. The best-fit double planet solution has minimum planet masses of 1.59 and 0.82Mjup, orbital periods of 258 and 5000d, and eccentricities of 0.23 and 0.12 respectively. We find evidence that activity-induced jitter is a significant factor in our fits and do not find evidence for asteroseismological p-modes. We also present seven years of photometry at a typical precision of 0.003mag with the T8 0.8m automatic photometric telescope at Fairborn observatory. These observations do not detect photometric variability and support the inference that the detected radial-velocity periods are due to planetary mass companions rather than due to photospheric spots and plages.
Bailey Jeremy
Butler Paul R.
Carter Brad D.
Henry Gregory W.
Jenkins James S.
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