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Low-Mass Companions for Five Solar-Type Stars From the Magellan Planet Search Program
We report low-mass companions orbiting five solar-type stars that haveemerged from the Magellan precision Doppler velocity survey, withminimum (Msin i) masses ranging from 1.2 to 25 M JUP. Thesenearby target stars range from mildly metal-poor to metal-rich, andappear to have low chromospheric activity. The companions to thebrightest two of these stars have previously been reported from theCORALIE survey. Four of these companions (HD 48265-b, HD 143361-b, HD28185-b, and HD 111232-b) are low-mass Jupiter-like planets in eccentricintermediate- and long-period orbits. On the other hand, the companionto HD 43848 appears to be a long-period brown dwarf in a very eccentricorbit.Based on observations obtained with the Magellan Telescopes, operated bythe Carnegie Institution, Harvard University, University of Michigan,University of Arizona, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
| Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 pc-The Southern Sample
We are obtaining spectra, spectral types, and basic physical parametersfor the nearly 3600 dwarf and giant stars earlier than M0 in theHipparcos catalog within 40 pc of the Sun. Here we report on resultsfor 1676 stars in the southern hemisphere observed at Cerro TololoInter-American Observatory and Steward Observatory. These resultsinclude new, precise, homogeneous spectral types, basic physicalparameters (including the effective temperature, surface gravity, andmetallicity [M/H]), and measures of the chromospheric activity of ourprogram stars. We include notes on astrophysically interesting stars inthis sample, the metallicity distribution of the solar neighborhood, anda table of solar analogs. We also demonstrate that the bimodal nature ofthe distribution of the chromospheric activity parameterlogR'HK depends strongly on the metallicity, andwe explore the nature of the ``low-metallicity'' chromosphericallyactive K-type dwarfs.
| K dwarfs and the chemical evolution of the solar cylinder
K dwarfs have lifetimes older than the present age of the Galactic disc,and are thus ideal stars for investigating the chemical evolution of thedisc. We have developed several photometric metallicity indicators for Kdwarfs, based on a sample of accurate spectroscopic metallicities for 34disc and halo G and K dwarfs. The photometric metallicities lead us todevelop a metallicity index for K dwarfs based only on their position inthe colour-absolute-magnitude diagram. Metallicities have beendetermined for 431 single K dwarfs drawn from the Hipparcos catalogue,selecting the stars by absolute magnitude and removing multiple systems.The sample is essentially a complete reckoning of the metal content innearby K dwarfs. We use stellar isochrones to mark the stars by mass,and select a subset of 220 of the stars, which is complete within anarrow mass interval. We fit the data with a model of the chemicalevolution of the solar cylinder. We find that only a modest cosmicscatter is required to fit our age-metallicity relation. The modelassumes two main infall episodes for the formation of the halo-thickdisc and thin disc, respectively. The new data confirm that the solarneighbourhood formed on a long time-scale of the order of 7 Gyr.
| Dwarf K and M stars in the southern hemisphere.
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| Constellation: | Cetus |
| Right ascension: | 02h31m42.47s |
| Declination: | -15°16'24.4" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.671 |
| Distance: | 26.11 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -73.5 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -118.4 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.864 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.77 |
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