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Oxford University Press, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4(333), p. 871-875, 2002

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05459.x

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A probable planetary companion to HD 39091 from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search

Journal article published in 2001 by Hugh Ra A. Jones ORCID, R. P. Butler, R. Paul Butler, Chris G. Tinney ORCID, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Alan J. Penny, Chris McCarthy, Brad D. Carter ORCID, Dimitri Pourbaix
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Abstract

We report the detection of a extrasolar planet candidate orbiting the G1 V star HD 39091. The orbital period is 2083 d and the eccentricity is 0.62. With a minimum (M sin $i$) mass of 10.3 M$_{\rm JUP}$ this object falls near the high mass end of the observed planet mass function, and may plausibly be a brown dwarf. Other characteristics of this system, including orbital eccentricity and metallicity, are typical of the well populated class of radial velocity planets in eccentric orbits around metal-rich stars.