The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets I. HD330075 b: a new 'hot Jupiter'

Details The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets I. HD330075 b: a new 'hot Jupiter' The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets I. HD330075 b: a new 'hot Jupiter'

2004-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405252v1

Astron.Astrophys. 423 (2004) 385-389

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics, see also http://obswww.unige.ch/~udry/planet/plane

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20040389

We report on the first extra-solar planet discovered with the brand new HARPS instrument. The planet is a typical 'hot Jupiter' with m2sini = 0.62 MJup and an orbital period of 3.39 days, but from the photometric follow-up of its parent star HD330075 we can exclude the presence of a transit. The induced radial-velocity variations exceed 100 m/s in semi-amplitude and are easily detected by state-of-the-art spectro-velocimeters. Nevertheless, the faint magnitude of the parent star (V = 9.36) benefits from the efficient instrument: With HARPS less than 10 observing nights and 3 hours of total integration time were needed to discover the planet and characterize its orbit. The orbital parameters determined from the observations made during the first HARPS run in July 2003 have been confirmed by 7 additional observations carried out in February 2004. The bisector analysis and a photometric follow-up give no hint for activity-induced radial-velocity variations, indicating that the velocity curve is best explained by the presence of a low-mass companion to the star. In this paper we present a set of 21 measurements of excellent quality with weighted rms as low as 2.0 m/s. These measurements lead to a well defined orbit and consequently to the precise orbital parameters determination of the extra-solar planet HD330075b.

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