* Astronomy

Title: A Planetary Companion to the Intermediate-Mass Giant HD 100655
Authors: Masashi Omiya, Inwoo Han, Hideyuki Izumiura, Byeong-Cheol Lee, Bun'ei Sato, Kang-Min Kim, Tae Seog Yoon, Eiji Kambe, Michitoshi Yoshida, Seiji Masuda, Eri Toyota, Seitaro Urakawa, Masahide Takada-Hidai

A precise radial velocity survey conducted by a Korean-Japanese planet search program revealed a planetary companion around the intermediate-mass clump giant HD 100655. The radial velocity of the star exhibits a periodic Keplerian variation with a period, semi-amplitude and eccentricity of 157.57 d, 35.2 m s^-1 and 0.085, respectively. Adopting an estimated stellar mass of 2.4 Solar masses, we confirmed the presence of a planetary companion with a semi-major axis of 0.76 AU and a minimum mass of 1.7 Jupiter masses. The planet is the lowest-mass planet yet discovered around clump giants with masses greater than 1.9 Solar masses.

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