Searching for planets in the hyades. I. the keck radial velocity survey

Apr, 2002
8 pages
Published in:
  • Astron.J. 124 (2002) 565
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We describe a high-precision radial velocity search for jovian-mass companions to main sequence stars in the Hyades star cluster. The Hyades provides an extremely well controlled sample of stars of the same age, the same metallicity, and a common birth and early dynamical environment. This sample allows us to explore the dependence of the process of planet formation on only a single independent variable: the stellar mass. In this paper we describe the survey and summarize results for the first five years.