Bibcode
Nowak, G.; Niedzielski, A.; Wolszczan, A.; Adamów, M.; Maciejewski, G.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 770, Issue 1, article id. 53, 11 pp. (2013).
Fecha de publicación:
6
2013
Revista
Número de citas
39
Número de citas referidas
35
Descripción
We report the discovery of planetary-mass companions to two red giants
by the ongoing Penn State-Toruń Planet Search (PTPS) conducted
with the 9.2 m Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The 1.1 M ⊙
K0-giant, BD+15 2940, has a 1.1 M J minimum mass companion
orbiting the star at a 137.5 day period in a 0.54 AU orbit what makes it
the closest—in planet around a giant and possible subject of
engulfment as the consequence of stellar evolution. HD 233604, a 1.5 M
⊙ K5-giant, is orbited by a 6.6 M J minimum
mass planet which has a period of 192 days and a semi-major axis of only
0.75 AU making it one of the least distant planets to a giant star. The
chemical composition analysis of HD 233604 reveals a relatively high
7Li abundance which may be a sign of its early evolutionary
stage or recent engulfment of another planet in the system. We also
present independent detections of planetary-mass companions to HD 209458
and HD 88133, and stellar activity-induced radial velocity variations in
HD 166435, as part of the discussion of the observing and data analysis
methods used in the PTPS project.