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={Eugenio Jose Rivera and Gregory P. Laughlin and R. Paul Butler and Steven S. Vogt and Nader Haghighipour and Stefano Meschiari}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2010}, volume={719}, pages={890 - 899} }
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 Pe = 126.6 days (over the 12.6-year baseline of the RV observations), and a minimum mass of mesin ie = 12.9 ± 1.7 M⊕. The detection of the new planet has been enabled by significant improvements to our RV data set for GJ 876. The data have been…
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