Bibcode
Niedzielski, A.; Goździewski, K.; Wolszczan, A.; Konacki, M.; Nowak, G.; Zieliński, P.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 693, Issue 1, pp. 276-280 (2009).
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2009
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Description
We report the discovery of one or more planet-mass companions to the
K0-giant HD 102272 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. In the absence of
any correlation of the observed periodicities with the standard
indicators of stellar activity, the observed radial velocity variations
are most plausibly explained in terms of a Keplerian motion of at least
one planet-mass body around the star. With an estimated stellar mass of
1.9 M sun, the minimum mass of the confirmed planet is 5.9
MJ . The planet's orbit is characterized by a small but
nonzero eccentricity e = 0.05 and a semimajor axis of 0.61 AU, which
makes it the most compact planet discovered so far around GK spectral
type giants. This detection adds to the existing evidence that, as
predicted by theory, the minimum size of planetary orbits around
intermediate-mass giants is affected by both planet-formation processes
and stellar evolution. The currently available evidence of another
planet around HD 102272 is insufficient to obtain an unambiguous
two-orbit solution.