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Article Dans Une Revue Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A Année : 2010

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets.

X. Bonfils
Jean-Loup Bertaux
François Bouchy
T. Forveille

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Precise radial-velocity measurements for data acquired with the HARPS spectrograph infer that three planets orbit the M 4 dwarf star GJ 876. In particular, we confirm the existence of planet d, which orbits every 1.93785 days. We find that its orbit may have significant eccentricity (e = 0.14), and deduce a more accurate estimate of its minimum mass of 6.3 M⊕. Dynamical modeling of the HARPS measurements combined with literature velocities from the Keck Observatory strongly constrain the orbital inclinations of the b and c planets. We find that ib = 48.9◦ ± 1.0◦ and ic = 48.1◦ ± 2.1◦, which infers the true planet masses of Mb = 2.64 ± 0.04 MJup and Mc = 0.83 ± 0.03 MJup, respectively. Radial velocities alone, in this favorable case, can therefore fully determine the orbital architecture of a multi-planet system, without the input from astrometry or transits. The orbits of the two giant planets are nearly coplanar, and their 2:1 mean motion resonance ensures stability over at least 5 Gyr. The libration amplitude is smaller than 2◦, suggesting that it was damped by some dissipative process during planet formation. The system has space for a stable fourth planet in a 4:1 mean motion resonance with planet b, with a period around 15 days. The radial velocity measurements constrain the mass of this possible additional planet to be at most that of the Earth.
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hal-00462209 , version 1 (16-07-2020)

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A.C.M. Correia, J. Couetdic, Jacques Laskar, X. Bonfils, M. Mayor, et al.. The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets.: XIX. Characterization and dynamics of the GJ 876 planetary system. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2010, 511, pp.A21. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/200912700⟩. ⟨hal-00462209⟩
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