Аннотация
Context. Detecting exoplanets in clusters of different ages is a
powerful tool for understanding a number of open questions, such as how
the occurrence rate of planets depends on stellar metallicity, on mass,
or on stellar environment.
Aims. We present the first results of our HARPS long-term radial
velocity (RV) survey which aims to discover exoplanets around
intermediate-mass (between similar to 2 and 6 M-circle dot) evolved
stars in open clusters.
Methods. We selected 826 bona fide HARPS observations of 114 giants from
an initial list of 29 open clusters and computed the half-peak to peak
variability of the HARPS RV measurements, namely Delta RV/2, for each
target, to search for the best planet-host candidates. We also performed
time series analyses for a few targets for which we have enough
observations to search for orbital solutions.
Results. Although we attempted to rule out the presence of binaries on
the basis of previous surveys, we detected 14 new binary candidates in
our sample, most of them identified from a comparison between HARPS and
CORAVEL data. We also suggest 11 new planet-host candidates based on a
relation between the stellar surface gravity and Delta RV/2. Ten of the
candidates are less than 3 M-circle dot, showing evidence of a low
planet occurrence rate for massive stars. One of the planet-host
candidates and one of the binary candidates show very clear RV periodic
variations, allowing us to confirm the discovery of a new planet and to
compute the orbital solution for the binary. The planet is IC 4651 9122b, with a minimum mass of msin i = 6.3 M-J and a semimajor axis a =
2.0 AU. The binary companion is NGC 5822 201B, with a very low minimum mass of msin i = 0.11 M-circle dot and a semimajor axis a = 6.5 AU,
which is comparable to the Jupiter distance to the Sun.
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