A Search for Line Shape and Depth Variations in 51 Pegasi and Tau Bootis

(2) Penn State University; (3) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); E. J. Kennelly(3); P. Nisenson(3); R. Kotak(1); R. W. Noyes(3) ((1) High Altitude Observatory; S. D. Horner(2); S. Korzennik(3); T. M. Brown (1)

arxiv: astro-ph/9712279 · v1 · submitted 1997-12-19 · 🌌 astro-ph

A Search for Line Shape and Depth Variations in 51 Pegasi and Tau Bootis

T. M. Brown (1) , R. Kotak(1) , S. D. Horner(2) , E. J. Kennelly(3) , S. Korzennik(3) , P. Nisenson(3) , R. W. Noyes(3) ((1) High Altitude Observatory , (2) Penn State University

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Spectroscopic observations of 51 Pegasi and tau Bootis show no periodic changes in the shapes of their line profiles; these results for 51 Peg are in significant conflict with those reported by Gray and Hatzes (1997). Our detection limits are small enough to rule out nonradial pulsations as the cause of the variability in tau Boo, but not in 51 Peg. The absence of line shape changes is consistent with these stars' radial velocity variability arising from planetary-mass companions.

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A Search for Line Shape and Depth Variations in 51 Pegasi and Tau Bootis

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