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A&A
Volume 509, January 2010
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Article Number | A24 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912536 | |
Published online | 12 January 2010 |
Detection of a planetary companion around the giant star γ1 Leonis*,**
1
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, 61-1, Whaam-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-348, Korea e-mail: iwhan@kasi.re.kr
2
Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, Korea
3
Astrophysical Research Center for the Structure and Evolution of the Cosmos, Sejong University, Seoul, 143-747, Korea
4
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchny, Crimea, 98409, Ukraine
5
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Sternwarte 5, 07778 Tautenburg, Germany
6
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional SPM, Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México, Ensenada, BC, México
Received:
20
May
2009
Accepted:
13
October
2009
Aims. Our primary goal is to search for planets around intermediate mass stars. We are also interested in studying the nature of radial velocity (RV) variations of K giant stars.
Methods. We selected about 55 early K giant (K0-K4) stars brighter than fifth magnitude that were observed using BOES, a high resolution spectrograph attached to the 1.8 m telescope at BOAO (Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory). BOES is equipped with I2 absorption cell for high precision RV measurements.
Results.
We detected a periodic radial velocity variations in the K0 III star Leonis with a period of P = 429 days.
An orbital fit of the observed RVs yields a period of P = 429 days, a semi-amplitude of K = 208
, and an eccentricity of e = 0.14.
To investigate the nature of the RV variations, we analyzed the photometric, Ca II λ 8662 equivalent width,
and line-bisector variations of
Leonis.
We conclude that the detected RV variations can be best explained by a planetary companion with
an estimated mass of
and a semi-major axis of a = 1.19 AU, assuming a stellar mass of 1.23
.
Key words: stars: individual: γ1 Leonis / planetary systems / supergiants
RV data (Table 3) is only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/qcat?J/A+A/509/A24
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