First Results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search: A Brown Dwarf Candidate and a 51 Peg-like Planet

We report results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search, a survey for planets around 200 solar-type stars in the southern hemisphere that is being carried out on the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope. Limiting Doppler precisions o f3ms ~1 have been demonstrated from the —rst 2.5 years of operation, making this the highest-precision planet search in the southern hemisphere. From these data we report

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