TWO JUPITER-MASS PLANETS ORBITING HD 154672 AND HD 205739

Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Butler, R. Paul; Fischer, Debra A.; Minniti, Dante; Shectman, Stephen A.; Takeda, Genya; Adams, Fred C.; Wright, Jason T.; Arriagada, Pamela
2008
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
DOI
10.1088/0004-6256/136/5/1901
We report the detection of the first two planets from the N2K Doppler planet search program at the Magellan telescopes. The first planet has a mass of M sin i = 4.96 M-Jup and orbits the G3 IV star HD154672 with an orbital period of 163.9 days. The second planet orbits the F7 V star HD205739 with an orbital period of 279.8 days and has a mass of M sin i = 1.37 M-Jup. Both planets are in eccentric orbits, with eccentricities e = 0.61 and e = 0.27, respectively. Both stars are metal rich and appear to be chromospherically inactive, based on inspection of their Ca II H and K lines. Finally, the best Keplerian model fit to HD205739b shows a trend of 0.0649 m s(-1) day(-1), suggesting the presence of an additional outer body in that system.