F. Bouchy, G. Hébrard, S. Udry, X. Delfosse, I. Boisse, M. Desort, X. Bonfils, A. Eggenberger, D. Ehrenreich, T. Forveille, A.-M. Lagrange, H. Le Coroller, C. Lovis, C. Moutou, F. Pepe, C. Perrier, F. Pont, D. Queloz, N. C. Santos, D. Ségransan, A. Vidal-Madjar
Abstract
We report on the discovery of a substellar companion or a massive Jupiter orbiting the G5V star HD16760 using the spectrograph SOPHIE installed on the OHP 1.93-m telescope. Characteristics and performances of the spectrograph are presented, as well as the SOPHIE exoplanet consortium program. With a minimum mass of 14.3 MJup, an orbital period of 465 days and an eccentricity of 0.067, HD16760b seems to be located just at the end of the mass distribution of giant planets, close to the planet/brown-dwarf transition. Its quite circular orbit supports a formation in a gaseous protoplanetary disk.
Keywords
planetary systems - techniques: radial velocities - stars: individual: HD 16760
Notes
* Based on observations made with SOPHIE spectrograph on the 1.93-m telescope at Observatoire de Haute-Provence (CNRS/OAMP), France (program 07A.PNP.CONS).
** Table 2 is also available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/qcat?J/A+A/505/853
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Volume 505, Number 02, Page 853
2009 October
