A probable planetary companion to HD 39091 from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search

Jones, H.R.A., Butler, R.P., Tinney, C.G., Marcy, G.W., Penny, A.J., McCarthy, C. and Pourbaix, D. (2002) A probable planetary companion to HD 39091 from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 333 (4). pp. 871-875. ISSN 0035-8711

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We report the detection of a extrasolar planet candidate orbiting the G1 V star HD 39091. The orbital period is 2083 d and the eccentricity is 0.62. With a minimum (M sin i) mass of 10.3 MJUP this object falls near the high mass end of the observed planet mass function, and may plausibly be a brown dwarf. Other characteristics of this system, including orbital eccentricity and metallicity, are typical of the well populated class of radial velocity planets in eccentric orbits around metal-rich stars.