THE DISCOVERY OF HD 37605c AND A DISPOSITIVE NULL DETECTION OF TRANSITS OF HD 37605b

We report the radial velocity discovery of a second planetary mass companion to the K0 V star HD 37605, which was already known to host an eccentric, P ~ 55 days Jovian planet, HD 37605b. Our discovery was made with the nearly 8 years of radial velocity follow-up at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and Ke...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Astrophysical journal 2012-12, Vol.761 (1), p.1-13
Hauptverfasser: XUESONG WANG, Sharon, WRIGHT, Jason T, DRAGOMIR, Diana, MATTHEWS, Jaymie M, HOWARD, Andrew W, MARCY, Geoffrey W, ISAACSON, Howard, FORD, Eric B, MAHADEVAN, Suvrath, VON BRAUN, Kaspar, COCHRAN, William, KANE, Stephen R, HENRY, Gregory W, PAYNE, Matthew J, ENDL, Michael, MACQUEEN, Phillip J, VALENTI, Jeff A, ANTOCI, Victoria
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Zusammenfassung:We report the radial velocity discovery of a second planetary mass companion to the K0 V star HD 37605, which was already known to host an eccentric, P ~ 55 days Jovian planet, HD 37605b. Our discovery was made with the nearly 8 years of radial velocity follow-up at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and Keck Observatory, including observations made as part of the Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey effort to provide precise ephemerides to long-period planets for transit follow-up. With a total of 137 radial velocity observations covering almost 8 years, we provide a good orbital solution of the HD 37605 system, and a precise transit ephemeris for HD 37605b. We present the BOOTTRAN package for calculating Keplerian orbital parameter uncertainties via bootstrapping. We made a comparison and found consistency between our orbital fit parameters calculated by the RVLIN package and error bars by BOOTTRAN with those produced by a Bayesian analysis using MCMC.
ISSN:0004-637X
1538-4357
DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/761/1/46