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A Search for Wide Companions to the Extrasolar Planetary System HR 8799

The extrasolar planetary system around HR 8799 is the first multiplanet system ever imaged. It is also, by a wide margin, the highest mass system with >27 Jupiters of planetary mass past 25 AU. This is a remarkable system with no analogue…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 Laird M. Close , Jared R. Males

MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion and detection of blended light

Microlensing detections of cool planets are important for the construction of an unbiased sample to estimate the frequency of planets beyond the snow line, which is where giant planets are thought to form according to the core accretion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Bachelet , I. -G. Shin , C. Han , P. Fouqué , A. Gould , J. W. Menzies , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , Subo Dong , D. Heyrovský , J. B. Marquette , J. Marshall , J. Skowron , R. A. Street , T. Sumi , A. Udalski , L. Abe , K. Agabi , M. D. Albrow , W. Allen , E. Bertin , M. Bos , D. M. Bramich , J. Chavez , G. W. Christie , A. A. Cole , N. Crouzet , S. Dieters , M. Dominik , J. Drummond , J. Greenhill , T. Guillot , C. B. Henderson , F. V. Hessman , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , J. A. Johnson , U. G. Jørgensen , R. Kandori , C. Liebig , D. Mékarnia , J. McCormick , D. Moorhouse , T. Nagayama , D. Nataf , T. Natusch , S. Nishiyama , J. -P. Rivet , K. C. Sahu , Y. Shvartzvald , G. Thornley , A. R. Tomczak , Y. Tsapras , J. C. Yee , V. Batista , C. S. Bennett , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , D. Kubas , R. Martin , A. Williams , M. Zub , L. Andrade de Almeida , D. L. DePoy , B. S. Gaudi , L. -W. Hung , F. Jablonski , S. Kaspi , N. Klein , C. -U. Lee , Y. Lee , J. -R. Koo , D. Maoz , J. A. Muñoz , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , A. Shporer , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , P. Harris , Y. Itow , S. Kobara , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , K. Ohmori , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , M. Kubiak , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , G. Pietrzyński , Ł. Wyrzykowski , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , T. Gerner , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , E. Kerins , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Proft , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , S. Schäfer , F. Schönebeck , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Wambsganss

Limits on Planets Around White Dwarf Stars

We present limits on planetary companions to pulsating white dwarf stars. A subset of these stars exhibit extreme stability in the period and phase of some of their pulsation modes; a planet can be detected around such a star by searching…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-22 F. Mullally , D. E. Winget , Steven Degennaro , Elizabeth Jeffery , S. E. Thompson , Dean Chandler

Dust in the Interplanetary Medium

The mass density of dust particles that form from asteroids and comets in the interplanetary medium of the solar system is, near 1 AU, comparable to the mass density of the solar wind. It is mainly contained in particles of micrometer size…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ingrid Mann , Andrzej Czechowski , Nicole Meyer-Vernet , Arnaud Zaslavsky , Herve Lamy

The completeness-corrected rate of stellar encounters with the Sun from the first Gaia data release

I report on close encounters of stars to the Sun found in the first Gaia data release (GDR1). Combining Gaia astrometry with radial velocities of around 320 000 stars drawn from various catalogues, I integrate orbits in a Galactic potential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

The perihelion precession of Saturn, planet X/Nemesis and MOND

We show that the retrograde perihelion precession of Saturn \Delta\dot\varpi, recently estimated by different teams of astronomers by processing ranging data from the Cassini spacecraft and amounting to some milliarcseconds per century, can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-13 Lorenzo Iorio

A Substellar Companion to the Intermediate-Mass Giant 11 Com

We report the detection of a substellar companion orbiting the intermediate-mass giant star 11 Com (G8 III). Precise Doppler measurements of the star from Xinglong station and Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) revealed Keplerian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. J. Liu , Bun'ei Sato , G. Zhao , Kunio Noguchi , H. Wang , Eiji Kambe , Hiroyasu Ando , Hideyuki Izumiura , Y. Q. Chen , Norio Okada , Eri Toyota , Masashi Omiya , Seiji Masuda , Yoichi Takeda , Daisuke Murata , Yoichi Itoh , Michitoshi Yoshida , Eiichiro Kokubo , Shigeru Ida

Multiplicity of Galactic Cepheids from long-baseline interferometry V. High-accuracy orbital parallax and mass of SU Cygni

Cepheid masses are particularly necessary to help solving the mass discrepancy, while independent distance determinations provide crucial test of the period-luminosity relation and Gaia parallaxes. We used CHARA/MIRC to measure the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 A. Gallenne , N. R. Evans , P. Kervella , J. D. Monnier , C. R Proffitt , G. H. Schaefer , E. M. Winston , J. Kuraszkiewicz , A. Mérand , G. Pietrzyński , W. Gieren , B. Pilecki , S. Kraus , J-B Le Bouquin , N. Anugu , T. ten Brummelaar , S. Chhabra , I. Codron , C. L. Davies , J. Ennis , T. Gardner , M. Gutierrez , N. Ibrahim , C. Lanthermann , D. Mortimer , B. R. Setterholm

Searching for young Jupiter analogs around AP Col: L-band high-contrast imaging of the closest pre-main sequence star

The nearby M-dwarf AP Col was recently identified by Riedel et al. 2011 as a pre-main sequence star (age 12 - 50 Myr) situated only 8.4 pc from the Sun. The combination of its youth, distance, and intrinsically low luminosity make it an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sascha P. Quanz , Justin R. Crepp , Markus Janson , Henning Avenhaus , Michael R. Meyer , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

The Orbit and Companion of Probable gamma-ray Pulsar J2339-0533

We have measured dramatic flux and spectral variations through the 0.193d orbit of the optical counterpart of the unidentified gamma-ray source 0FGL J2339.8-0530. This compact object companion is strongly heated, with T_eff varying from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Roger W. Romani , Michael S. Shaw

An eccentric companion at the edge of the brown dwarf desert orbiting the 2.4 Msun giant star HIP67537

We report the discovery of a substellar companion around the giant star HIP67537. Based on precision radial velocity measurements from CHIRON and FEROS high-resolution spectroscopic data, we derived the following orbital elements for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 M. I. Jones , R. Brahm , R. A. Wittenmyer , H. Drass , J. S. Jenkins , C. H. F. Melo , J. Vos , P. Rojo

BANYAN. VI. Discovery of a companion at the brown dwarf/planet-mass limit to a Tucana-Horologium M dwarf

We report the discovery of a substellar companion to 2MASS J02192210-3925225, a young M6 $\gamma$ candidate member of the Tucana-Horologium association (30 - 40 Myr). This L4 $\gamma$ companion has been discovered with seeing-limited direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-06 Étienne Artigau , Jonathan Gagné , Jacqueline Faherty , Lison Malo , Marie-Eve Naud , René Doyon , David Lafrenière , Yuri Beletsky

ISO/SWS observations of SN 1987A: II. A refined upper limit on the mass of Ti-44 in the ejecta of SN 1987A

ISO/SWS observations of SN 1987A on day 3425 show no emission in [Fe I] 24.05 microns and [Fe II] 25.99 microns down to the limits of roughly 0.39 Jy and 0.64 Jy, respectively. Assuming a homogeneous distribution of Ti-44 inside 2000 km/s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Lundqvist , C. Kozma , J. Sollerman , C. Fransson

Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Solar-Type Star TYC 2534-698-1

Brown dwarfs and low-mass stellar companions are interesting objects to study since they occupy the mass region between deuterium and hydrogen burning. We report here the serendipitous discovery of a low-mass companion in an eccentric orbit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Stephen R. Kane , Suvrath Mahadevan , William D. Cochran , Rachel A. Street , Sivarani Thirupathi , Gregory W. Henry , Michael H. Williamson

Placing direct limits on the mass of earth-bound dark matter

We point out that by comparing the total mass (in gravitational units) of the earth-moon system, as determined by lunar laser ranging, with the sum of the lunar mass as independently determined by its gravitational action on satellites or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephen L. Adler

An L0 dwarf companion in the brown dwarf desert, at 30 AU

We present the discovery of an L0 companion to the nearby M1.5 dwarf G 239-25, at a projected distance of 31 AU. It is the faintest companion discovered so far in our adaptive optics survey of all known M dwarfs within 12 pc, and it lies at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Forveille , D. Ségransan , P. Delorme , E. L. Martín , X. Delfosse , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , J. -L. Beuzit , A. Manchado , M. Mayor , C. Perrier , S. Udry

A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting microlensing observations towards the Galactic Bulge. Based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Kains , R. Street , J. -Y. Choi , C. Han , A. Udalski , L. A. Almeida , F. Jablonski , P. Tristram , U. G. Jorgensen , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , J. Skowron , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , M. Dominik , S. Dreizler , X. -S. Fang , F. Grundahl , C. -H. Gu , S. Hardis , K. Harpsoe , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , A. Hornstrup , M. Hundertmark , J. Jessen-Hansen , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , M. Lund , M. Lundkvist , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , K. C. Sahu , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , J. Wambsganss , O. Wertz , D. Bajek , D. M. Bramich , K. Horne , S. Ipatov , I. A. Steele , Y. Tsapras , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , T. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , W. Allen , V. Batista , S. -J. Chung , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , C. Henderson , Y. -K. Jung , J. -R. Koo , C. -U. Lee , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , J. A. Munoz , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , H. Park , R. W. Pogge , I. -G. Shin , J. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , A. Williams , D. Wouters , M. Zub

OGLE-2013-BLG-1761Lb: A Massive Planet Around an M/K Dwarf

We report the discovery and the analysis of the planetary microlensing event, OGLE-2013-BLG-1761. There are some degenerate solutions in this event because the planetary anomaly is only sparsely sampled. But the detailed light curve…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Y. Hirao , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , N. J. Rattenbury , D. Suzuki , N. Koshimoto , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , R. K. Barry , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , T. Matsuo , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , To. Saito , A. Sharan , H. Shibai , D. J. Sullivan , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamada , T. Yamada , A. Yonehara , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , M. K. Szymański , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , I. Soszyński , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk

Empirical Limits on Radial Velocity Planet Detection for Young Stars

We report initial results from our long term search using precision radial velocities for planetary-mass companions located within a few AU of stars younger than the Sun. Based on a sample of >150 stars, we define a floor in the radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-18 Lynne Hillenbrand , Howard Isaacson , Geoffrey Marcy , Scott Barenfeld , Debra Fischer , Andrew Howard

Imaging and spectroscopy of DENIS-P J104814-395606

We obtained deep H- and K-band images of DENIS-P J104814-395606 using SofI and the speckle camera SHARP-I at the ESO-3.5m-NTT as well as QUIRC at the Mauna Kea 2.2m telescope between December 2000 and June 2001. The target was recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralph Neuhaeuser , Eike Guenther , Joao Alves , Nicolas Grosso , Christoph Leinert , Thorsten Ratzka , Thomas Ott , Markus Mugrauer , Fernando Comeron , Andreas Eckart , Wolfgang Brandner