J/ApJ/634/625     Radial velocities and photometry of GJ 876     (Rivera+, 2005)

A ∼7.5 M(Earth) planet orbiting the nearby star, GJ 876. Rivera E.J., Lissauer J.J., Butler R.P., Marcy G.W., Vogt S.S., Fischer D.A., Brown T.M., Laughlin G., Henry G.W. <Astrophys. J. 634, 625 (2005)> =2005ApJ...634..625R 2005ApJ...634..625R
ADC_Keywords: Radial velocities ; Stars, nearby ; Photometry Keywords: planetary systems - planets and satellites: general - stars: individual (GJ 876) Abstract: High-precision, high-cadence radial velocity monitoring over the past 8yr at the W. M. Keck Observatory reveals evidence for a third planet orbiting the nearby (4.69pc) dM4 star GJ 876. The residuals of three-body Newtonian fits, which include GJ 876 and Jupiter-mass companions b and c, show significant power at a periodicity of 1.9379days. Self-consistently fitting the radial velocity data with a model that includes an additional body with this period significantly improves the quality of the fit. Description: We present results of N-body fits to the radial velocity data taken at the W.M. Keck telescope from 1997 June to 2004 December. Objects: ----------------------------------------------- RA (2000) DE Designation(s) ----------------------------------------------- 22 53 16.7 -14 15 49 GJ 876 = V* IL Aqr 22 49 26.5 -11 20 57 HD 216018 = BD-12 6357 23 09 49.5 -14 30 38 HD 218639 = BD-15 6360 ----------------------------------------------- File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 23 155 Measured Velocities for GJ 876 (Keck) table5.dat 33 371 Photometric observations of GJ 876 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 F10.3 d HJD Heliocentric Julian Date 12- 18 F7.2 m/s RV Radial velocity 20- 23 F4.2 m/s e_RV Error in RV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 12 F12.4 --- HJD Heliocentric Julian Date 14- 19 F6.4 mag P-C1 Program-Comp 1 differential mag in (b+y)/2 (1) 21- 26 F6.4 mag P-C2 Program-Comp 2 differential mag in (b+y)/2 (1) 28- 33 F6.4 mag C1-C2 Comp 1-Comp 2 differential mag in (b+y)/2 (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): We used HD 216018 (V=7.62, B-V=0.354) as our primary comparison star (C1) and HD 218639 (V=6.43, B-V=0.010) as a secondary comparison star (C2). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Marianne Brouty [CDS] 18-Sep-2006
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