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2017AJ....153..167W - Astron. J., 153, 167-167 (2017/April-0)

The Anglo-Australian Planet Search. XXV. A candidate massive Saturn analog orbiting HD 30177.

WITTENMYER R.A., HORNER J., MENGEL M.W., BUTLER R.P., WRIGHT D.J., TINNEY C.G., CARTER B.D., JONES H.R.A., ANGLADA-ESCUDE G., BAILEY J. and O'TOOLE S.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of a second long-period giant planet orbiting HD 30177, a star previously known to host a massive Jupiter analog (HD 30177b: a = 3.8 ± 0.1 au, m sin i = 9.7 ± 0.5 MJup). HD 30177c can be regarded as a massive Saturn analog in this system, with a = 9.9 ± 1.0 au and m sin i = 7.6 ± 3.1 MJup. The formal best-fit solution slightly favors a closer-in planet at a ∼ 7 au, but detailed n-body dynamical simulations show that configuration to be unstable. A shallow local minimum of longer period, lower eccentricity solutions was found to be dynamically stable, and hence we adopt the longer period in this work. The proposed ∼32 year orbit remains incomplete; further monitoring of this and other stars is necessary to reveal the population of distant gas giant planets with orbital separations a ∼ 10 au, analogous to that of Saturn.

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Journal keyword(s): planetary systems - stars: individual: HD 30177 - techniques: radial velocities - techniques: radial velocities

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