Non-Detection of the Putative Substellar Companion to HD 149382

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2011-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/1110.1384v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

5 figures, 6 pages, 2 tables

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It has been argued that a substellar companion may significantly influence the evolution of the progenitors of sdB stars. Recently, the bright sdB star HD 149382 has been claimed to host a substellar (possibly planetary) companion with a period of 2.391 days. This has important implications for the evolution of the progenitors of sdB stars as well as the source of the UV-excess seen in elliptical galaxies. In order to verify this putative planet, we made 10 radial velocity measurements of HD 149382 over 17 days with the High Resolution Spectrograph at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Our data conclusively demonstrate that the putative substellar companion does not exist, and they exclude the presence of almost any substellar companion with P < 28 days and Msin i >~ 1 Mjup.

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