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HR 8799

(star with four directly-imaged exoplanets)

HR 8799 is a young main sequence star with a debris disk and four giant extra-solar planets. It is one of the first systems in which the exoplanets were discovered (or confirmed) by direct imaging and the clearest view of so much of a planetary system. Characteristics:

planetdist. to starradiusmasstemperature
HR 8799 b71.6 AU1.2 RJ5.7 MJ870 K
HR 8799 c41.39 AU1.2 RJ7.8 MJ1090 K
HR 8799 d26.67 AU1.2 RJ9.1 MJ1090 K
HR 8799 e16.25 AU1.17 RJ7.4 MJ1000 K

(RJ and MJ are Jupiter's radius and mass and the temperatures are determined effective temperatures.)


(star,disk,exoplanets,variable star)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799_b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799_c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799_d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799_e
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HR8799
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008Sci...322.1348M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26A...623L..11G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...753...14S/abstract
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
~040.9pc133lyHR 8799
Coordinates:HR 8799
J230728.7157+210803.311

Referenced by pages:
A-type star (A)
Bright Star Catalog (HR)
direct imaging
stellar designation

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