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GJ 3021 b

Extrasolar planet in the constrellation Hydrus


Summary

Extrasolar planet in the constrellation Hydrus

FieldValue
nameGJ 3021 b
imageGJ 3021 b (Exoplanete).jpg
captionGJ 3021 b
discovererNaef, Mayor, Queloz
discovery_siteEULER, La Silla, Chile
discovered25 January 2000
discovery_methodRadial velocity
apsisastron
semimajor0.495 AU
eccentricity0.511 ± 0.017
period133.71 ± 0.20 d
time_periastron2,451,545.86 ± 0.64
arg_peri290.7 ± 3.0
semi-amplitude167.0 ± 4.0
starGJ 3021

| semi-amplitude = 167.0 ± 4.0 GJ 3021 b, also known as Gliese 3021 b or HD 1237 b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 57 light-years away, orbiting its bright G-dwarf parent star in the Southern constellation of Hydrus. It was discovered with the Swiss Euler Telescope at the Chilean La Silla Observatory in 2000.

As determined by doppler spectroscopy, the jovian planet has an elongated orbit about 0.5 AU from its host star and a minimum mass 3.37 times that of Jupiter. Its orbital period of more than 133 days is much longer than that for typical hot Jupiters.

A study published in 2001 suggested that the usual inability to determine the orbital inclination of an extrasolar planet through radial velocity measurement had caused this mass to be severely underestimated. The astrometric orbit gives an orbital inclination of 11.8° and a mass of 16 Jupiter masses, which would make the object a brown dwarf. However, later analysis showed that Hipparcos was not sensitive enough to accurately determine astrometric orbits for substellar companions, which means the inclination (and hence the true mass) of the planet are still unknown.

References

References

  1. Butler, R. P.. (2007). "Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets".
  2. Han. (2001). "Preliminary astrometric masses for proposed extrasolar planetary companions". The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
  3. (2001). "Screening the Hipparcos-based astrometric orbits of sub-stellar objects". [[Astronomy and Astrophysics]].
  4. (2001). "The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets V. 3 new extrasolar planets". [[Astronomy and Astrophysics]].
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