The first extrasolar planet discovered with a new-generation high-throughput Doppler instrument

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We are grateful to Stuart Shaklan, Michael Shao, Chas Beichman, Richard Green, Skip Andree, Daryl Wilmarth, and the KPNO staff for their generous support and advice and to Larry Molnar for his help in the early photometric data acquisition. The HET observations, whose timings were critical, were made possible by the dedicated efforts of the HET staff. We are indebted to Sara Seager and Eric Agol for a number of stimulating discussions. We thank Aldo Martínez Fiorenzano for helping the line bisector analysis of HD 102195. We appreciate many valuable comments made by the referee, which helped to improve the paper quality. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation grant AST 02-43090, JPL, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Florida. S. M. and J. v. E. acknowledge the JPL Michelson Fellowship funded by NASA. G. W. H. is grateful for the efforts of Lou Boyd at Fairborn Observatory and acknowledges support from NASA grant NCC5-511 and NSF grant HRD 97-06268. E. B. F. acknowledges the support of the Miller Institute for Basic Research. W. D. C., M. E., and R. A. W. were supported by NASA grants NNG04G141G and NNG05G107G to the University of Texas at Austin. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, Ludwig-MaximilliansUniversität München, and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The HET is named in honor of its principal benefactors,William P. Hobby and Robert E. Eberly. D. M. was supported by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC), Programa Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica under grant AYA2005-02750. D. M. is grateful to Raquel M. Martínez, Jesús Maldonado, and Benjamín Montesinos for their help during the observations. FOCES high-resolution optical spectra were based on observations collected at the Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán (CAHA) at Calar Alto, operated jointly by the Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC). This research has made use of the SIMBAAD database, operated at ADC, Strasbourg, France.