![CARMENES finds a nearby Neptune in the temperate zone of an early-M dwarf Explanatory drawing of the planetary system of GJ617A in comparison with the Solar System](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/news/resultados197_213_0.jpg?h=3854682b&itok=YK3PajuI)
We report on the first star discovered to host a planet detected by radial velocity (RV) observations obtained within the CARMENES survey for exoplanets around M dwarfs. HD 147379 (V = 8.9 mag, M = 0.58 ± 0.08 M⊙), a bright M0.0 V star at a distance of 10.7 pc, is found to undergo periodic RV variations with a semi-amplitude of K = 5.1 ± 0.4 m s−1 and a period of P = 86.54 ± 0.06 d. The RV signal is found in our CARMENES data, which were taken between 2016 and 2017, and is supported by HIRES/Keck observations that were obtained since 2000. The RV variations are interpreted as resulting from
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