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Year Phase [d]

1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 0 50 100 150 200 250 300
17200
P=307.2 d CES+LC
CORALIE CES+VLC
17150 AAT HARPS

17100
RV [m/s]

17050

17000

16950

16900

16850
100
O-C [m/s]

50
0
-50
-100
49000 50000 51000 52000 53000 54000 55000 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Time Phase
Fig. 9. (Left) RV time series for ι Hor combined with AAT and CORALIE data. (Right) RVs phase folded to the period of P = 307 d and the
residuals (bottom).

0.29 ζ 2 Ret: given the very similar stellar parameters of the binary
ι Hor (G0V) pair ζ 1 Ret and ζ 2 Ret, del Peloso et al. (2000) already
0.28 HARPS
SMARTS pointed out the baffling fact of their very different activity
Mount Wilson S-index

0.27 566 d
630 d
level. We do not find any significant RV excess variability
0.26 for ζ 2 Ret. However, there is a significant RV-FHWM corre-
0.25 lation and all three activity indicators seem to exhibit a small
0.24 trend, which might be either due to a magnetic cycle or in-
0.23
strumental (cf. τ Cet).
$ Eri: Hatzes et al. (2000) announced a planet in an eccentric
0.22
orbit (e = 0.6) around this active star. Benedict et al. (2006)
0.21 refined the orbital solution and combined the RVs with as-
0.2 trometric observations with the HST Fine Guidance Sensor
3000 3500 4000 4500 5000 5500 indicating an orbital inclination of i = 30◦ . Likewise, Reffert
JD - 2450000 & Quirrenbach (2011) derived a similar value for the incli-
Fig. 10. S-index measurements for ι Hor. Metcalfe et al. (2010) pub- nation and an upper mass limit of 6.1 MJup using H
lished the SMARTS data (blue open circles) and the 566 d period (dot- astrometry and the RV orbit solution.
ted line). The formal best fit for the combined data set is 630 d (dashed However, in the periodogram for $ Eri (Fig. 14) we cannot
line). find any evidence for the long-period planet (P = 2500 d)
suggested by Hatzes et al. (2000) whose orbital solution is
plotted in Fig. 20 for comparison. Due to the higher preci-
sion of our data, the combined rms is 8.2 m/s for fitting a
exceeds the predicted value140 ± 7 m/s/dex for a magnetic constant, while Hatzes et al. (2000) list an rms ranging from
cycle (Sect. 4.5, assuming 5746±27 K and [Fe/H] = −0.22 ± 11 to 22 m/s for different instruments in the residuals of their
0.05 from del Peloso et al. 2000). r = 0.88 indicates that Keplerian model. $ Eri is an active star and all three activity
the
√ subtraction of this correlation will reduce the scatter by indicators are variable, and the BIS shows an anti-correlation
1 − r2 to 5.9 m/s. ζ 1 Ret has the largest log R#HK -variations with RV. The stellar rotation period is 11.2 d (Donahue et al.
and a quite high jitter estimate of 3.8 m/s within our sample. 1996; Fröhlich 2007). On a short time scale of 85 min its

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