Period Relation for the 2:1 resonance in the GJ876 planetary system

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2005-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507217v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages 9 figures

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The recent radial velocity Keck data for GJ876 in Laughlin et al. (2005) is shown to be in good agreement, apart from a 6 m/s scatter, with a theoretical calculation (Nauenberg, 2002) based on orbital parameters from a fit to the earlier Keck data. The time variation of the periods of the inner and outer planets, which are locked in a near 2:1 resonance, are evaluated, and their mean values, Pi and Po, are shown to satisfy closely the relation Po/Pi=2+Po/P, where P is the period for the retrograde precesion of the common mean periastron of these planets.

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