The Pennsylvania - Toruń Planet Search: Target characteristics and recent results

Paweł Zieliński, Andrzej Niedzielski, Alexander Wolszczan, Grzegorz Nowak, Monika Adamów, Sara Gettel

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Abstract

More than 450 stars hosting planets are known today but only approximately 30 planetary systems were discovered around stars beyond the Main Sequence. The Pennsylvania-Toruń Planet Search, putting an emphasis on extending studies of planetary system formation and evolution to intermediate-mass stars, is oriented towards the discoveries of substellar-mass companions to a large sample of evolved stars using high-precision radial velocity technique. We present the recent status of our survey and detailed characteristic for ∼350 late type giant stars, i.e. the new results of radial velocity analysis and stellar fundamental parameters obtained with extensive spec-troscopic method. Moreover, in the future we will make an attempt to perform the statistical study of our sample and searching the correlations between the existence of substellar objects and stellar atmospheric parameters according to previous works which investigated the planetary companion impact on the evolution of the host stars.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationPlanetary Systems Beyond the Main Sequence - Proceedings of the International Conference "Planetary Systems Beyond the Main Sequence"
Pages110-116
Number of pages7
Volume1331
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
EventInternational Conference "Planetary Systems Beyond the Main Sequence" - Bamberg, Germany
Duration: Aug 11 2010Aug 14 2010

Other

OtherInternational Conference "Planetary Systems Beyond the Main Sequence"
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBamberg
Period8/11/108/14/10

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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