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Ge, Jian; van Eyken, Julian; Mahadevan, Suvrath; DeWitt, Curtis; Kane, Stephen R.; Cohen, Roger; Vanden Heuvel, Andrew; Fleming, Scott W.; Guo, Pengcheng; Henry, Gregory W.; Schneider, Donald P.; Ramsey, Lawrence W.; Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Endl, Michael; Cochran, William D.; Ford, Eric B.; Martín, Eduardo L.; Israelian, Garik; Valenti, Jeff; Montes, David
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 648, Issue 1, pp. 683-695.
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2006
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We report the detection of the first extrasolar planet, ET-1 (HD
102195b), using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), a new-generation Doppler
instrument. The planet orbits HD 102195, a young star with solar
metallicity that may be part of the local association. The planet
imparts radial velocity variability to the star with a semiamplitude of
63.4+/-2.0 m s-1 and a period of 4.11 days. The planetary
minimum mass (msini) is 0.488MJ+/-0.015MJ. The
planet was initially detected in the spring of 2005 with the Kitt Peak
National Observatory (KPNO) 0.9 m coudé feed telescope. The
detection was confirmed by radial velocity observations with the ET at
the KPNO 2.1 m telescope and also at the 9 m Hobby-Eberly Telescope
(HET) with its High Resolution Spectrograph. This planetary discovery
with a 0.9 m telescope around a V=8.05 magnitude star was made possible
by the high throughput of the instrument: 49% measured from the fiber
output to the detector. The ET's interferometer-based approach is an
effective method for planet detection. In addition, the ET concept is
adaptable to multiple-object Doppler observations or very high precision
observations with a cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph to separate
stellar fringes over a broad wavelength band. In addition to
spectroscopic observations of HD 102195, we obtained brightness
measurements with one of the automated photometric telescopes at
Fairborn Observatory. Those observations reveal that HD 102195 is a
spotted variable star with an amplitude of ~0.015 mag and a 12.3+/-0.3
day period. This is consistent with spectroscopically observed Ca II H
and K emission levels and line-broadening measurements but inconsistent
with rotational modulation of surface activity as the cause of the
radial velocity variability. Our photometric observations rule out
transits of the planetary companion.