The Pan-Pacific Planet Search -- IX. A menagerie of companions orbiting evolved stars
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| author | Wittenmyer, Robert A. Venner, Alexander Fairnington, Tyler Zhou, George Wright, Duncan J. Curtin, Evan Bedding, Timothy R. Crawford, Courtney L. Li, Yaguang Stello, Dennis Hon, Marc Huber, Daniel Grundahl, Frank Fredslund, M. Skakke Palle, Pere L. Gan, Tianjun Horner, Jonathan Kielkopf, John Kane, Stephen R. Plavchan, Peter Shporer, Avi Tinney, C. G. Zhang, Hui Mengel, Matthew W. Okumura, Jack |
| author_facet | Wittenmyer, Robert A. Venner, Alexander Fairnington, Tyler Zhou, George Wright, Duncan J. Curtin, Evan Bedding, Timothy R. Crawford, Courtney L. Li, Yaguang Stello, Dennis Hon, Marc Huber, Daniel Grundahl, Frank Fredslund, M. Skakke Palle, Pere L. Gan, Tianjun Horner, Jonathan Kielkopf, John Kane, Stephen R. Plavchan, Peter Shporer, Avi Tinney, C. G. Zhang, Hui Mengel, Matthew W. Okumura, Jack |
| contents | We present resolutions as to the nature of six speculative candidate companions proposed in the final data release of the Pan-Pacific Planet Search, a 6-year radial-velocity survey of 164 southern evolved stars using the now-decommissioned UCLES spectrograph on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. New radial-velocity observations, TESS asteroseismology, and Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry are incorporated to refine the companion and host-star parameters. We confirm that HD 126105b is a giant planet ($P=524.0\pm$2.9 d, $m$ sin $i=1.67^{+0.19}_{-0.17}M_{Jup}$), and that HD 205577B is a massive, eccentric brown dwarf ($P\sim$11.2 yr, $m=77^{+11}_{-9}M_{Jup}$, $e=0.68$). HD 115066B and HD 121156B are low-mass stellar companions, while HD 114899 and HD 159743 are shown to be unadorned by any detectable companions whatsoever. This demonstrates the utility of astrometric information to help overcome the temporal limitations of incomplete radial-velocity data sets and elucidate the true nature of suspected companion bodies. |
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| spellingShingle | The Pan-Pacific Planet Search -- IX. A menagerie of companions orbiting evolved stars Wittenmyer, Robert A. Venner, Alexander Fairnington, Tyler Zhou, George Wright, Duncan J. Curtin, Evan Bedding, Timothy R. Crawford, Courtney L. Li, Yaguang Stello, Dennis Hon, Marc Huber, Daniel Grundahl, Frank Fredslund, M. Skakke Palle, Pere L. Gan, Tianjun Horner, Jonathan Kielkopf, John Kane, Stephen R. Plavchan, Peter Shporer, Avi Tinney, C. G. Zhang, Hui Mengel, Matthew W. Okumura, Jack Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics We present resolutions as to the nature of six speculative candidate companions proposed in the final data release of the Pan-Pacific Planet Search, a 6-year radial-velocity survey of 164 southern evolved stars using the now-decommissioned UCLES spectrograph on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. New radial-velocity observations, TESS asteroseismology, and Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry are incorporated to refine the companion and host-star parameters. We confirm that HD 126105b is a giant planet ($P=524.0\pm$2.9 d, $m$ sin $i=1.67^{+0.19}_{-0.17}M_{Jup}$), and that HD 205577B is a massive, eccentric brown dwarf ($P\sim$11.2 yr, $m=77^{+11}_{-9}M_{Jup}$, $e=0.68$). HD 115066B and HD 121156B are low-mass stellar companions, while HD 114899 and HD 159743 are shown to be unadorned by any detectable companions whatsoever. This demonstrates the utility of astrometric information to help overcome the temporal limitations of incomplete radial-velocity data sets and elucidate the true nature of suspected companion bodies. |
| title | The Pan-Pacific Planet Search -- IX. A menagerie of companions orbiting evolved stars |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00787 |