Searching for Planets in the Hyades. I. The Keck Radial Velocity Survey
Open Access
- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astronomical Journal
- Vol. 124 (1), 565-571
- https://doi.org/10.1086/341170
Abstract
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.Keywords
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