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  A Planetary System around Ups And
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  Last update: January the 21st 2004

 
 
 
  • Ups And b discovery paper: "Three New 51 Pegasi--Type Planets"
    R.P. Butler, G.W. Marcy, E. Williams, H. Hauser, P. Shirts, 1997, ApJ 474, L115
    -- ADS

  • System discovery paper: "Evidence for Multiple Companions to Ups And"
    R.P. Butler, G.W. Marcy, D.A. Fischer, T.M. Brown, A.R. Contos, S.G. Korzennik, P. Nisenson, R.W. Noyes 1999, ApJ 526, 916
    -- ADS

  • Confirmation paper:"The ELODIE survey for northern extra-solar planets III: Three planetary candidates detected with ELODIE"
    D. Naef, M. Mayor, J.L. Beuzit, C. Perrier, D. Queloz, J.P. Sivan, S. Udry, 2004, A&A 414, 351--ADS

  •  

    a: Phase-folded velocities for Ups And b.
    (signal from the outer planets removed).
    b: Orbital solution for Ups And c and d
    (signal from inner planet removed).
    c: Residuals around the solution.
    Larger image (41 kb)


  • Elodie orbital solution as published in Naef et al. 2004:

    Object
    Period
    (days)
    T0
    (JD - 2 400 000)
    Eccentricity
    V
    (km/s)
    Omega
    (deg)
    K1
    (km/s)
    msini
    (M_Jup)
    with M1=1.3 M_Sol
    a
    (AU)
    N
    Residuals
    (m/s)
    Ups And b
    4.61712 +/- 0.00009
    50004.28 +/- 0.49
    0.020 +/- 0.023
    -28.655 +/- 0.002
    241.5 +/- 37.9
    0.0772 +/- 0.0013
    0.75 +/- 0.01
    0.059
    71
    14.9
    Ups And c
    238.10 +/- 0.46
    50159.4 +/- 8.0
    0.185 +/- 0.028
    "
    214.2 +/- 11.4
    0.0629 +/- 0.0017
    2.25 +/- 0.06
    0.821
    "
    "
    Ups And d
    1319 +/- 18
    49963 +/- 43
    0.269 +/- 0.036
    "
    247.6 +/- 10.6
    0.0638 +/- 0.0023
    3.95 +/- 0.13
    2.57
    "
    "


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