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A probable planetary companion to HD 39091 from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search

Hugh R. A. Jones, R. Paul Butler, C. G. Tinney, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Alan J. Penny, Chris McCarthy, Brad D. Carter, Dimitri Pourbaix

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0112084

Abstract

We report the detection of a extrasolar planet candidate orbiting the G1 V star HD 39091. The orbital period is 2083 d and the eccentricity is 0.62. With a minimum (M sin i) mass of 10.3 M JUP 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.

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