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Description
Statistical studies of exoplanets have shown that giant planets are more commonly hosted by metal-rich dwarf stars than low-metallicity stars, while no such correlation is evident for lower mass planets. The search for giant planets around metal-poor stars and the estimate of their occurrence f_p_ is an important element in providing support to models of planet formation. We present results from the HARPS-N search for giant planets orbiting metal-poor (-1.0<=[Fe/H]<=-0.5dex) stars in the northern hemisphere, complementing a previous HARPS survey on southern stars in order to update the estimate of f_p_. High-precision HARPS-N observations of 42 metal-poor stars were used to search for planetary signals to be fitted using differential evolution Markov chain Monte Carlo single-Keplerian models. We then joined our detections to the results of the previous HARPS survey on 88 metal-poor stars to provide a preliminary estimate of the two-hemisphere f_p_. We report the detection of two new giant planets around HD 220197 and HD 233832. The first companion has Msini=0.20_-0.04_^+0.07^MJup and an orbital period of 1728_-80_^+162^days, and for the second companion, we find two solutions of equal statistical weight with periods of 2058_-40_^+47^ and 4047_-117_^+91^days and minimum masses of 1.78_-0.06_^+0.08^ and 2.72_-0.23_^+0.23^MJup, respectively. Joining our two detections with the three from the southern survey, we obtain a preliminary and conservative estimate of the global frequency of f_p_=3.84_-1.06_^+2.45^% for giant planets around metal-poor stars. The two new giant planets orbit dwarf stars at the metal-rich end of the HARPS-N metal-poor sample. This corroborates previous results that suggested that giant planet frequency is still a rising function of the host star [Fe/H]. We also note that all detections in the overall sample are giant long-period planets.
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