• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/719/1/890
Corpus ID: 118707953

THE LICK-CARNEGIE EXOPLANET SURVEY: A URANUS-MASS FOURTH PLANET FOR GJ 876 IN AN EXTRASOLAR LAPLACE CONFIGURATION*

@article{Rivera2010THELE,
  title={THE LICK-CARNEGIE EXOPLANET SURVEY: A URANUS-MASS FOURTH PLANET FOR GJ 876 IN AN EXTRASOLAR LAPLACE CONFIGURATION*},
  author={E. Rivera and G. Laughlin and R. Butler and S. Vogt and N. Haghighipour and S. Meschiari},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2010},
  volume={719},
  pages={890-899}
}

E. Rivera, G. Laughlin, +3 authors S. Meschiari

Published 2010

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

Continued radial velocity (RV) monitoring of the nearby M4V red dwarf star GJ 876 with Keck/High Resolution Echelle Spectrograph has revealed the presence of a Uranus-mass fourth planetary companion in the system. The new planet has a mean period of P{sub e} = 126.6 days (over the 12.6-year baseline of the RV observations), and a minimum mass of m{sub e} sin i{sub e} = 12.9 {+-} 1.7 M {sub +}. The detection of the new planet has been enabled by significant improvements to our RV data set for GJ… CONTINUE READING

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