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The Anglo-Australian planet search. XX. A solitary ice-giant planet orbiting HD 102365
(2011)
We present 12 years of precision Doppler data for the very nearby G3 star HD 102365, which reveals the presence of a Neptune-like planet with a 16.0 M-Earth minimum mass in a 122.1 day orbit. Very few "Super Earth" planets ...
Low-mass Objects in Moving Groups
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010)
We present here the kinematic study of part of a 132 target sample of low-mass objects, previously selected by photometric and astrometric criteria as possible members to five young moving groups (MGs): Local Association ...
A search for southern ultracool dwarfs in young moving groups
(2010)
We associate 132 low-mass ultracool dwarfs in the southern hemisphere as candidate members of five moving groups (MGs) using photometric and astrometric selection techniques. Of these objects, we present high-resolution ...
NACO-SDI imaging of known companion host stars from the AAPS and Keck planet search surveys
(2010)
Context. Direct imaging of brown dwarfs as companions to solar-type stars can provide a wealth of well-constrained data to “benchmark” the physics of such objects, since quantities like metallicity and age can be determined ...
Discovery of the first white dwarf + T dwarf binary system and the use of white dwarfs as age calibrators
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2010)
We present the discovery of the first white dwarf + T dwarf binary system. Systems containing a white dwarf and a brown dwarf are rare but can be used to place constraints on the age of the binary, making them valuable ...
47 new T dwarfs from the UKIDDS large area survey
(2010)
We report the discovery of 47 new T dwarfs in the Fourth Data Release (DR4) from the Large Area Survey (LAS) of the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey with spectral types ranging from T0 to ...
A search for molecules in the atmosphere of HD 189733b
(2010)
We use signal enhancement techniques and a matched filter analysis to search for the K-band spectroscopic absorption signature of the close orbiting extrasolar giant planet, HD 189733b. With time-series observations taken ...
The discovery of a very cool binary system
(2010)
We report the discovery of a very cool d/sdL7+T7.5p common proper motion binary system, SDSS J1416+13AB, found by cross-matching the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area ...
The frequency of low-mass exoplanets. II. The "Period Valley"
(2010)
Radial-velocity planet search campaigns are now beginning to detect low-mass "Super-Earth" planets, with minimum masses M sin i 10 M ⊕. Using two independently developed methods, we have derived detection limits from nearly ...
Spectroscopy and kinematics of low-mass members of young moving groups
(2010)
We study a target sample of 68 low-mass objects (with spectral types in the range M4.5–L1) previously selected via photometric and astrometric criteria, as possible members of five young moving groups: the Local Association ...