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The Dispersed Matter Planet Project Sample -- Detection limits, Occurrence Rates and New Planets

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2026-02-23 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

DMPP is a radial-velocity survey that aims to detect planets around stars exhibiting anomalous activity signatures, consistent with the presence of close-in evaporating planets. Here, we report the discovery of 7 new planetary signals in 5 different systems: DMPP-2c & d, HD67200/DMPP-6b & c, HD118006/DMPP-7b, HD191122/DMPP-8b, and HD200133/DMPP-9b. We update the orbital parameters of the DMPP-1, DMPP-2, and DMPP-3 systems, along with those of the planetary systems orbiting HD181433, HD39194, and HD89839. We derive detection limits for all 24 targets in our sample with adequate observational coverage, and test the DMPP hypothesis by calculating the occurrence rates for planets in this configuration. We find that the occurrence rates of planets in our sample with orbital periods shorter than 50 d50~\mathrm{d} and masses in the range 33-1010 M_\oplus are 83.024.4+27.1%83.0^{+27.1}_{-24.4}\%, for 1010-3030 M_\oplus are 27.011.2+15.0%27.0^{+15.0}_{-11.2}\%, and for 3030-100100 M_\oplus are 13.97.5+11.8%13.9^{+11.8}_{-7.5}\%. This is significantly higher than the occurrence rates reported by other radial velocity surveys, providing strong support for the DMPP hypothesis.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2602.18207,
  title  = {The Dispersed Matter Planet Project Sample -- Detection limits, Occurrence Rates and New Planets},
  author = {Matthew R. Standing and John R. Barnes and Carole A. Haswell and Adam T. Stevenson and João P. Faria and Erwan Quintin and Zachary O. B. Ross and Luca Fossati and James S. Jenkins and Douglas Alves and Daniel Staab},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18207},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Appendix: 20 pages, 47 figures

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