Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: We report the detection of an extra-solar planet candidate orbiting the G1 V star HD 39091. The orbital period is 2049 d and the eccentricity is 0.62. With a minimum (M sin i) mass of 10.3MJUP this object falls near the high-mass end of the observed planet mass function, and may plausibly be a brown dwarf. Other characteristics of this system, including orbital eccentricity and metallicity, are typical of the well-populated class of radial velocity planets in eccentric orbits around metal-rich stars.
Authors: Hugh R. A. Jones, R. Paul Butler, C. G. Tinney, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Alan J. Penny, Chris McCarthy, Brad D. Carter, Dimitri Pourbaix
Institutions: Liverpool John Moores University, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Observatories, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Australian Astronomical Observatory, University of California, Berkeley, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Southern Queensland, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2157531109