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Gettel, S.; Wolszczan, A.; Niedzielski, A.; Nowak, G.; Adamów, M.; Zieliński, P.; Maciejewski, G.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 745, Issue 1, article id. 28, 10 pp. (2012).
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We present the discovery of substellar-mass companions to three giant
stars by the ongoing Penn State-Toruń Planet Search conducted
with the 9.2 m Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The most massive of the three
stars, K2-giant HD 240237, has a 5.3 MJ minimum mass
companion orbiting the star at a 746 day period. The K0-giant BD +48 738
is orbited by a >=0.91 MJ planet which has a period of 393
days and shows a nonlinear, long-term radial velocity (RV) trend that
indicates a presence of another, more distant companion, which may have
a substellar mass or be a low-mass star. The K2-giant HD 96127 has a
>=4.0 MJ mass companion in a 647 day orbit around the
star. The two K2-giants exhibit a significant RV noise that complicates
the detection of low-amplitude, periodic variations in the data. If the
noise component of the observed RV variations is due to solar-type
oscillations, we show, using all the published data for the substellar
companions to giants, that its amplitude is anti-correlated with stellar
metallicity.