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A Search for Planetary-Mass Companions to Nearby Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of VictoriaP.O. Box 1700 Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 2Y2

Abstract

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Nine of 18 stars observed with a high precision radial velocity technique show long term, low level variations which imply the presence of companions in the range of 1 to 10 Jupiter masses. These companions could represent the tip of the planetary-mass spectrum.

Type
Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 8: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXth General Assembly of the IAU, 1988 , 1989 , pp. 109 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

References

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