摘要
We report the discovery of a substellar companion around the intermediate- mass giant HD 175679. Precise radial velocity data of the star from the Xinglong Station and the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory revealed a Keplerian velocity variation with an orbital period of 1366.8±5.7 d, a semiamplitude of 380.2±3.2 m s-1 and an eccentricity of 0.378± 0.008. Adopting a stellar mass of 2.7± 0.3 M, we obtain that the minimum mass of the HD 175679 b is 37.3± 2.8 M and the semimajor axis is 3.36±0.12 AU. This discovery is the second brown dwarf companion candidate from a joint planet-search program between China and Japan.
We report the discovery of a substellar companion around the intermediate- mass giant HD 175679. Precise radial velocity data of the star from the Xinglong Station and the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory revealed a Keplerian velocity variation with an orbital period of 1366.8±5.7 d, a semiamplitude of 380.2±3.2 m s-1 and an eccentricity of 0.378± 0.008. Adopting a stellar mass of 2.7± 0.3 M, we obtain that the minimum mass of the HD 175679 b is 37.3± 2.8 M and the semimajor axis is 3.36±0.12 AU. This discovery is the second brown dwarf companion candidate from a joint planet-search program between China and Japan.
基金
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10821061 and 10803010)
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under grant 08032011-000184 in the framework of the Joint Research Project between China and Japan