Lupus-TR-3b
Lupus-TR-3b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Lupus-TR-3 (a K-type main sequence star approximately 8,950 light-years away in the constellation Lupus). The planet was discovered in 2007 by personnel from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian observing at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, by the transit method.
The planet has four-fifths the mass of Jupiter, nine-tenths the radius, and has density of 1.4 g/cm. This planet is a typical “Hot Jupiter” as it orbits at 0.0464 AU distance from the star, taking 3.9 days to orbit. It is currently the faintest ground-based detection of a transiting planet.
See also
References
- ^ Weldrake; Bayliss, Daniel D. R.; Sackett, Penny D.; Tingley, Brandon W.; Gillon, Michaël; Setiawan, Johny (2008). "Lupus-TR-3b: A Low-Mass Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Galactic Plane?". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 675 (1): L37 – L40. arXiv:0711.1746. Bibcode:2008ApJ...675L..37W. doi:10.1086/529519. S2CID 13285272.
External links
Media related to Lupus-TR-3b at Wikimedia Commons
- Bayliss; Weldrake, David T. F.; Sackett, Penny D.; Tingley, Brandon W.; Lewis, Karen M. (2009). "The Lupus Transit Survey for Hot Jupiters: Results and Lessons". The Astronomical Journal. 137 (5): 4368–4376. arXiv:0903.5121. Bibcode:2009AJ....137.4368B. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4368. S2CID 16189693.
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