A Collage of Small Planets from the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: Exploring the Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Mass Regime
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Article Title | A Collage of Small Planets from the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: Exploring the Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Mass Regime |
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ERA Journal ID | 1048 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Burt, Jennifer (Author), Feng, Fabo (Author), Holden, Bradford (Author), Mamajek, Eric E. (Author), Huang, Chelsea X. (Author), Rosenthal, Mickey M. (Author), Wang, Songhu (Author), Butler, R. Paul (Author), Vogt, Steven S. (Author), Laughlin, Gregory (Author), Henry, Gregory W. (Author), Teske, Johanna K. (Author), Wang, Sharon X. (Author), Crane, Jeffrey D. (Author) and Shectman, Steve A. (Author) |
Journal Title | The Astronomical Journal |
Journal Citation | 161 (1), pp. 1-25 |
Article Number | 10 |
Number of Pages | 25 |
Year | 2020 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0004-6256 |
1538-3881 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abc2d0 |
Web Address (URL) | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc2d0 |
Abstract | Analysis of new precision radial velocity (RV) measurements from the Lick Automated Planet Finder and Keck HIRES has yielded the discovery of three new exoplanet candidates orbiting the nearby stars HD 190007 and HD 216520. We also report new velocities from the APF and the Planet Finder Spectrograph and updated orbital fits for the known exoplanet host stars GJ 686 and HD 180617. Of the newly discovered planets, HD 190007 b has a period of P = 11.72 days, an RV semiamplitude of K = 5.64 ± 0.55 m s-1, a minimum mass of M pl = 16.46 ± 1.66 M ⊕, and orbits the slightly metal-rich, active K4V star HD 190007. For HD 216520 b, we find P = 35.45 days, K = 2.28 ± 0.20 m s-1, and M pl = 10.26 ± 0.99 M ⊕, while for HD 216520 c, P = 154.43 days, K = 1.29 ± 0.22 m s-1, and M pl = 9.44 ± 1.63 M ⊕. Both planets orbit the slightly metal-poor, inactive K0V star HD 216520. Our updated best-fit models for HD 180617 b and GJ 686 b are in good agreement with the published results. For HD 180617 b, we obtain P = 105.91 days and M pl = 12.214 ± 1.05 M ⊕. For GJ 686 b, we find P = 15.53 days and M pl = 6.624 ± 0.432 M ⊕. Using an injection-recovery exercise, we find that HD 190007 b and HD 216520 b are unlikely to have additional planets with masses and orbital periods within a factor of 2, in marked contrast to ∼85% of planets in this mass and period range discovered by Kepler. |
Keywords | Exoplanet astronomy (486); Exoplanet detection methods (489); Exoplanets (498); Radial velocity (1332); Mini Neptunes (1063); Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510109. Stellar astronomy and planetary systems |
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Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
University of California, United States | |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States | |
Indiana University Bloomington, United States | |
Carnegie Institution of Washington, United States | |
Yale University, United States | |
Tennessee State University, United States | |
Tsinghua University, China |
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