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51 Eridani b

(51 Eri b)
(Jupiter-like planet discovered in 2014)

51 Eridani b (aka 51 Eri b) is an extra-solar planet discovered through direct imaging in 2014 with the Gemini Planet Imager. It orbits about 11 AU from F-type star, 51 Eridani. As a directly-imaged object, data from observing it is useful in modeling apparently-similar objects orbiting closer to their hosts. Its effective temperature derived through spectroscopy is 700 K. The star's age is estimated as around 20 million years, suggesting a similar age for the planet, constraining it to be no more than that. Models of such a planet that include clouds in its atmosphere suggest a mass of on the order of 2 Jupiter masses is plausible.


(exoplanet,gas giant,direct imaging)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51_Eridani_b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51_Eridani
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015Sci...350...64M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26A...624A.118M/abstract
http://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=51+eri+b
http://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=51+Eri
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
~029pc96ly51 Eridani b
Coordinates:51 Eridani b
J043736.13234-022824.7749

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Flamsteed designation

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