THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PLANET SEARCH. XX. A SOLITARY ICE-GIANT PLANET ORBITING HD 102365
- Department of Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052 (Australia)
- Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015-1305 (United States)
- Centre for Astrophysical Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB (United Kingdom)
- Australian Astronomical Observatory, P.O. Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710 (Australia)
We present 12 years of precision Doppler data for the very nearby G3 star HD 102365, which reveals the presence of a Neptune-like planet with a 16.0 M{sub Earth} minimum mass in a 122.1 day orbit. Very few 'Super Earth' planets have been discovered to date in orbits this large and those that have been found reside in multiple systems of between three and six planets. HD 102365 b, in contrast, appears to orbit its star in splendid isolation. Analysis of the residuals to our Keplerian fit for HD 102365 b indicates that there are no other planets with minimum mass above 0.3 M{sub Jup} orbiting within 5 AU and no other 'Super Earths' more massive than 10 M{sub Earth} orbiting at periods shorter than 50 days. At periods of less than 20 days these limits drop to as low as 6 M{sub Earth}. There are now 32 exoplanets known with minimum mass below 20 M{sub Earth}, and interestingly the period distributions of these low-mass planets seem to be similar whether they orbit M-, K-, or G-type dwarfs.
- OSTI ID:
- 21567543
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 727, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/2/103; ISSN 0004-637X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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