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OGLE-2005-BLG-169L

OGLE-2005-BLG-169L is a dim and distant magnitude 20 galactic bulge star located about 2,700 parsecs away in the constellation Sagittarius. If it is a main sequence star, then it is most likely a red dwarf with about half of the mass of the Sun. Other possibilities are a white dwarf star, or (less likely) a neutron star or black hole.

Planetary system

In 2006, an Uranus-mass extrasolar planet was detected by gravitational microlensing around this star.

The OGLE-2005-BLG-169L planetary system
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b 0.041 MJ 2.7 ~3300

See also

References

  1. ^ "SIMBAD query result: NAME OGLE 2005-BLG-169 -- Star". Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  2. ^ Gould, A.; et al. (2006). "Microlens OGLE-2005-BLG-169 Implies That Cool Neptune-like Planets Are Common". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 644 (1): L37–L40. arXiv:astro-ph/0603276. Bibcode:2006ApJ...644L..37G. doi:10.1086/505421. S2CID 14270439.