Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21547204l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #472.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.519
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present a new brown dwarf candidate, TYC 1240-945-1b, discovered in the first year of MARVELS, a multi-object radial velocity (RV) planet search which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III). From our RV discovery data taken at 15 epochs spread over a 100d time baseline at the SDSS 2.5-m telescope, we derive a preliminary characterization of the orbit with semi-amplitude K=2.5 km/s, period P=5.9d, and no detectable eccentricity. Adopting a mass of 1.2 solar masses for the F9V host star TYC 1240-945-1, we infer that the candidate has Msini 26MJup and semimajor axis 0.068AU. In addition to exhibiting the discovery data, we show the pre-survey and follow-up spectroscopic observations that have been taken to further refine the stellar parameters for the host star.
This work was supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation, NSF, SDSS-III consortium, NASA, and UF.
Agol Eric
Barnes Robin
Bizyaev Dimitry
Brewington Howard
Chang Lei
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