EPJ Web of Conferences 11, 02007 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20101102007

Global results from the HARPS metal-poor sample

¹ Centro de Astrofísica, Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal
[nuno.santos@astro.up.pt]
² Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
³ Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, 51 ch. des Maillettes, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
⁴ Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, Université J. Fourier, CNRS (UMR5571), BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
⁵ Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR7095 CNRS, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, 98bis Bd Arago, 75014 Paris, France
⁶ European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile

Abstract

In this paper we present the global results of a HARPS-GTO program to search for planets orbiting a sample of metal-poor stars. The detection of several giant planets in long period orbits is discussed in the context of the metallicitygiant planet correlation.