A transiting rocky planet at 6.5pc from the Sun

DOI

We know now from radial velocity surveys and transit space missions that planets only a few times more massive than our Earth are frequent around solar-type stars. Fundamental questions about their formation history, physical properties, internal structure, and atmosphere composition are, however, still to be solved. We present here the detection of a system of four low-mass planets around the bright (V=5.5) and close-by (6.5pc) star HD 219134. This is the first result of the Rocky Planet Search programme with HARPS-N on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in La Palma. The inner planet orbits the star in 3.0935+/-0.0003-days, on a quasi-circular orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.0382+/-0.0003AU. Spitzer observations allowed us to detect the transit of the planet in front of the star making HD 219134 b the nearest known transiting planet to date.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.35840072
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Provenance
Creator Motalebi F.; Udry S.; Gillon M.; Lovis C.; Segransan D.; Buchhave L.A.; Demory B.O.; Malavolta L.; Dressing C.D.; Sasselov D.; Rice K.; Charbonneau D.; Collier Cameron A.; Latham D.; Molinari E.; Pepe F.; Affer L.; Bonomo A.S.; Cosentino R.; Dumusque X.; Figueira P.; Fiorenzano A.F.M.; Gettel S.; Harutyunyan A.; Haywood R.D.; Johnson J.; Lopez E.; Lopez-Morales M.; Mayor M.; Micela G.; Mortier A.; Nascimbeni V.; Philips D.; Piotto G.; Pollacco D.; Queloz D.; Sozzetti A.; Vanderburg A.; Watson C.A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2015
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Exoplanet Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Solar System Astronomy; Stellar Astronomy