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Suárez Mascareño, A.; González Hernández, J. I.; Rebolo, R.; Astudillo-Defru, N.; Bonfils, X.; Bouchy, F.; Delfosse, X.; Forveille, T.; Lovis, C.; Mayor, M.; Murgas, F.; Pepe, F.; Santos, N. C.; Udry, S.; Wünsche, A.; Velasco, S.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 597, id.A108, 11 pp.
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2017
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We report the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting the star GJ 536 based
on the analysis of the radial-velocity time series from the HARPS and
HARPS-N spectrographs. GJ 536 b is a planet with a minimum mass Msini of
5.36 ± 0.69 M⊕; it has an orbital period of
8.7076 ± 0.0025 d at a distance of 0.066610(13) AU, and an orbit
that is consistent with circular. The host star is the moderately quiet
M1 V star GJ 536, located at 10 pc from the Sun. We find the presence of
a second signal at 43 d that we relate to stellar rotation after
analysing the time series of Ca II H&K and Hα
spectroscopic indicators and photometric data from the ASAS archive. We
find no evidence linking the short period signal to any activity proxy.
We also tentatively derived a stellar magnetic cycle of less than 3 yr.
The data used in this paper (Table A.1) are only available at the CDS
via anonymous ftp to http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (http://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/597/A108
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