• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/794/1/51
Corpus ID: 17361592

The NASA-UC-UH ETA-Earth Program. IV. A Low-mass Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf 3.6?PC from Earth

@article{Howard2014TheNE,
  title={The NASA-UC-UH ETA-Earth Program. IV. A Low-mass Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf 3.6?PC from Earth},
  author={A. Howard and G. Marcy and D. Fischer and H. Isaacson and P. Muirhead and G. Henry and T. Boyajian and K. V. Braun and J. Becker and J. Wright and J. Johnson},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2014},
  volume={794},
  pages={51}
}

A. Howard, G. Marcy, +8 authors J. Johnson

Published 2014

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

We report the discovery of a low-mass planet orbiting Gl 15 A based on radial velocities from the Eta-Earth Survey using HIRES at Keck Observatory. Gl 15 Ab is a planet with minimum mass M sin i = 5.35 ± 0.75 M_⊕, orbital period P = 11.4433  ±  0.0016 days, and an orbit that is consistent with circular. We characterize the host star using a variety of techniques. Photometric observations at Fairborn Observatory show no evidence for rotational modulation of spots at the orbital period to a limit… CONTINUE READING

View PDF on arXiv

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed