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EAS Publications Series
Volume 42, 2010
Extrasolar Planets in Multi-Body Systems: Theory and Observations
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| Page(s) | 125 - 129 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1042011 | |
| Published online | 19 April 2010 | |
K. Goździewski, A. Niedzielski and J. Schneider (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 42 (2010) 125-129
TW Hya under CRIRES light: evidence against the presence of a hot Jupiter
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Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève, 1290-Sauverny, Switzerland
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Centro de Astrofísica, Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal
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European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
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Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa, OAL, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-018 Lisboa, Portugal
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Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental (LAEFF-INTA), Apdo. 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain
High-precision radial velocity measurements have suffered from stellar spots effects for more than one decade. With the advent of high-resolution infra-red spectrographs, one is allowed to move into a new spectral domain where the influence of these stellar phenomena on measurements is significantly reduced. We present the first results of our CRIRES campaign on TW Hya, around which a periodic optical radial velocity variation was found and attributed to a planet. Our work showed that the signal is not present in the infra-red, pointing to a cold spot instead of to a planet as the explanation for the different data sets. This campaign demonstrates the power of this new approach and shows that CRIRES can deliver high-precision radial velocity measurements.
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