KNOW THE STAR, KNOW THE PLANET. II. SPECKLE INTERFEROMETRY OF EXOPLANET HOST STARS
- United States Naval Observatory, Washington, DC 20392-5420 (United States)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303-3083 (United States)
- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, La Serena (Chile)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 (United States)
A study of the host stars to exoplanets is important for understanding their environment. To that end, we report new speckle observations of a sample of exoplanet host primaries. The bright exoplanet host HD 8673 (= HIP 6702) is revealed to have a companion, although at this time we cannot definitively establish the companion as physical or optical. The observing lists for planet searches and for these observations have for the most part been pre-screened for known duplicity, so the detected binary fraction is lower than what would otherwise be expected. Therefore, a large number of double stars were observed contemporaneously for verification and quality control purposes, to ensure that the lack of detection of companions for exoplanet hosts was valid. In these additional observations, 10 pairs are resolved for the first time and 60 pairs are confirmed. These observations were obtained with the USNO speckle camera on the NOAO 4 m telescopes at both KPNO and CTIO from 2001 to 2010.
- OSTI ID:
- 22034358
- Journal Information:
- Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online), Vol. 142, Issue 5; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1538-3881
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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