| Issue |
A&A
Volume 526, February 2011
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | A112 | |
| Number of page(s) | 17 | |
| Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015494 | |
| Published online | 07 January 2011 | |
The HARPS search for southern extrasolar planets⋆,⋆⋆
XXV. Results from the metal-poor sample
1
Centro de Astrofísica, Universidade do Porto,
Rua das Estrelas,
4150-762
Porto,
Portugal
e-mail: nuno@astro.up.pt
2
Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências,
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
3
Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève,
51 Ch. des
Maillettes, 1290
Sauverny,
Switzerland
4
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, Université
J. Fourier, CNRS (UMR 5571), BP
53, 38041
Grenoble Cedex 9,
France
5
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095 CNRS, Université
Pierre & Marie Curie, 98bis Bd Arago, 75014
Paris,
France
6
European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
Received: 29 July 2010
Accepted: 12 October 2010
Searching for extrasolar planets around stars of different metallicity may provide strong constraints to the models of planet formation and evolution. In this paper we present the overall results of a HARPS (a high-precision spectrograph mostly dedicated to deriving precise radial velocities) program to search for planets orbiting a sample of 104 metal-poor stars (selected [Fe/H] below −0.5). Radial velocity time series of each star are presented and searched for signals using several statistical diagnostics. Stars with detected signals are presented, including 3 attributed to the presence of previously announced giant planets orbiting the stars HD 171028, HD 181720, and HD 190984. Several binary stars and at least one case of a coherent signal caused by activity-related phenomena are presented. One very promising new, possible giant planet orbiting the star HD 107094 is discussed, and the results are analyzed in light of the metallicity-giant planet correlation. We conclude that the frequency of giant planets orbiting metal-poor stars may be higher than previously thought, probably reflecting the higher precision of the HARPS survey. In the metallicity domain of our sample, we also find evidence that the frequency of planets is a steeply rising function of the stellar metal content, as found for higher metallicity stars.
Key words: techniques: radial velocities / techniques: spectroscopic / planets and satellites: formation / planetary systems / stars: abundances
Based on observations collected at the La Silla Parana Observatory, ESO (Chile) with the HARPS spectrograph at the 3.6-m telescope (ESO runs ID 72.C-0488, 082.C-0212, and 085.C-0063).
Full Tables 1 and 3 are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/526/A112
© ESO, 2011
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