Ground based astrometric search for extrasolar planets in stellar multiple systems
2010
Using relative astrometry and ground based imaging, we study nearby stellar multiple
systems in order to detect the astrometric signal of exoplanets around one of the stellar
components. We suppress differential chromatic refraction effects by observing in the near
infrared with a narrow-band filter and by choosing an iterative calibration strategy
(using a stellar cluster) we obtain a precision down to 100 μ as in our
relative astrometric measurements. This allows us to study the occurence and properties of
exoplanets in nearby (less than 100 pc) stellar multiple systems. While trying to detect the astrometric signal of the exoplanet orbiting HD19994 A (Mayor
et al. 2004), we detected the
astrometric signal of a further object around the B component. This astrometric detection
is confirmed by speckle interferometry and follow-up radial velocity (RV) observations.
Thus, HD19994 is an exoplanet host-triple system.
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