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

Jian Ge, Julian van Eyken, Suvrath Mahadevan, Curtis DeWitt, Stephen R. Kane, Roger Cohen, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, Scott W. Fleming, Pengcheng Guo, Gregory W. Henry, Donald P. Schneider, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Eric B. Ford, Eduardo L. Martin, Garik Israelian, Jeff Valenti, David Montes

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0605247

Abstract

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 63.42.0 m s-1 and a period of 4.11 days. The planetary minimum mass (m i) is 0.4880.015 MJ.

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