Issue |
A&A
Volume 625, May 2019
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Article Number | A17 | |
Number of page(s) | 23 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935019 | |
Published online | 01 May 2019 |
The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets
XIV. A temperate (Teq ~ 300 K) super-earth around the nearby star Gliese 411★,★★
1
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
e-mail: rodrigo.diaz@unige.ch
2
CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE),
Buenos Aires, Argentina
3
CNRS, IPAG, Université Grenoble Alpes,
38000
Grenoble, France
4
CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, CNES,
LAM,
Marseille, France
5
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción,
Casilla 160-C,
Concepción, Chile
6
Center of Excellence in Information Systems, Tennessee State University,
Nashville,
TN 37209, USA
7
Observatoire de Haute Provence, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Pythéas UMS 3470,
04870
Saint-Michel-l’Observatoire, France
8
Observatoire Astronomique de l’Université de Genève,
51 Chemin des Maillettes,
1290
Versoix, Switzerland
9
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR7095 CNRS, Université Pierre & Marie Curie,
98bis boulevard Arago,
75014
Paris, France
10
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas,
4150-762
Porto, Portugal
11
Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre,
4169-007
Porto, Portugal
12
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation,
65-1238 Mamalahoa Hwy,
Kamuela,
HI 96743, USA
13
Department of Physics, University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
14
Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability, University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Received:
4
January
2019
Accepted:
13
February
2019
Periodic radial velocity variations in the nearby M-dwarf star Gl 411 are reported, based on measurements with the SOPHIE spectrograph. Current data do not allow us to distinguish between a 12.95-day period and its one-day alias at 1.08 days, but favour the former slightly. The velocity variation has an amplitude of 1.6 m s−1, making this the lowest-amplitude signal detected with SOPHIE up to now. We have performed a detailed analysis of the significance of the signal and its origin, including extensive simulations with both uncorrelated and correlated noise, representing the signal induced by stellar activity. The signal is significantly detected, and the results from all tests point to its planetary origin. Additionally, the presence of an additional acceleration in the velocity time series is suggested by the current data. On the other hand, a previously reported signal with a period of 9.9 days, detected in HIRES velocities of this star, is not recovered in the SOPHIE data. An independent analysis of the HIRES dataset also fails to unveil the 9.9-day signal. If the 12.95-day period is the real one, the amplitude of the signal detected with SOPHIE implies the presence of a planet, called Gl 411 b, with a minimum mass of around three Earth masses, orbiting its star at a distance of 0.079 AU. The planet receives about 3.5 times the insolation received by Earth, which implies an equilibrium temperature between 256 and 350 K, and makes it too hot to be in the habitable zone. At a distance of only 2.5 pc, Gl 411 b, is the third closest low-mass planet detected to date. Its proximity to Earth will permit probing its atmosphere with a combination of high-contrast imaging and high-dispersion spectroscopy in the next decade.
Key words: planetary systems / techniques: radial velocities / stars: low-mass / stars: individual: Gl 411
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