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The First Extrasolar Planet Discovered with a New Generation High Throughput Doppler Instrument

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 نشر من قبل Jian Ge
 تاريخ النشر 2006
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We report the detection of the first extrasolar planet, ET-1 (HD 102195b), using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), a new generation Doppler instrument. The planet orbits HD 102195, a young star with solar metallicity that may be part of the local association. The planet imparts radial velocity variability to the star with a semiamplitude of $63.4pm2.0$ m s$^{-1}$ and a period of 4.11 days. The planetary minimum mass ($m sin i$) is $0.488pm0.015$ $M_J$.



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