HD 73256 b

HD 73256 b
Extrasolar planet List of extrasolar planets
Parent star
Star HD 73256
Constellation Pyxis
Right ascension (α) 08h 36m 23.0155s
Declination (δ) −30° 02 15.456
Distance119 ly
(36.5 pc)
Spectral type G9V
Orbital elements
Semimajor axis(a) 0.037 AU
Periastron (q) 0.036 AU
Apastron (Q) 0.038 AU
Eccentricity (e) 0.029±0.02
Orbital period(P) 2.54858±0.00016 d
Orbital speed (υ) 160 km/s
Argument of
periastron
(ω) 337±46°
Time of periastron (T0) 2452500.18±0.28 JD
Semi-amplitude (K) 269±8 m/s
Physical characteristics
Minimum mass(m sin i)1.87 MJ
Discovery information
Discovery date 2003
Discoverer(s) Udry et al.
Discovery method Doppler spectroscopy
(CORALIE)
Discovery site La Silla Observatory, Chile
Discovery status Published
Database references
Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopaedia
data
SIMBADdata
Exoplanet Archivedata
Open Exoplanet Cataloguedata

HD 73256 b is an 1.87 MJ hot Jupiter orbiting at 0.037 AU taking 2.55 days to orbit around HD 73256.[1]

Assuming the planet is perfectly grey with no greenhouse or tidal effects, and a Bond albedo of 0.1, the temperature would be about 1300 K. This is close to 51 Pegasi b; between the predicted temperatures of HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b (1180-1392K), before they were measured. It is a candidate for "near-infrared characterisation with the VLTI Spectro-Imager".[2]

See also

References

  1. Udry, S. et al. (2003). "The CORALIE survey for southern extra-solar planets X. A Hot Jupiter orbiting HD 73256". Astronomy and Astrophysics 407 (2): 679–684. arXiv:astro-ph/0304248. Bibcode:2003A&A...407..679U. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20030815.
  2. Renard, S. et al. (2008). "Proceedings of SPIE" 7013. arXiv:0807.3014v1 [astro-ph]. doi:10.1117/12.790494. Unsupported parameter(s) in cite arXiv (help)

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Coordinates: 08h 36m 23.0155s, −30° 02′ 15.456″