NY Virginis b
NY Virginis b is a gas giant exoplanet of 2.66 Jupiter masses. Its orbital period is 8.64 years (3,160 d). This planet is in a circumbinary orbit around NY Virginis, which is a rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type eclipsing binary.[2][3]
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Qian et al. |
| Discovery date | December 2011 |
| Timing | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 3.39 AU (507,000,000 km)[2] | |
| Eccentricity | 0.15±0.08[3] |
| 8.64±0.17 y[3] | |
| 2453472[3] | |
| 348±6[3] | |
| Star | NY Virginis |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mass | 2.66±0.26 MJ[3] |
References
- Qian, S.-B.; Zhu, L.-Y.; Dai, Z.-B.; Fernández-Lajús, E.; Xiang, F.-Y.; He, J.-J. (2011). "Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the Rapidly Pulsating Subdwarf B-type binary NY Vir". The Astrophysical Journal. 745 (2): L23. arXiv:1112.4269. Bibcode:2012ApJ...745L..23Q. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/745/2/L23. S2CID 118745084.
- "Planet : NY Vir (AB) b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
- Song, Shuo; Mai, Xinyu; Mutel, Robert L.; Pulley, David; Faillace, George; Watkins, Americo (2019). "An Updated Model for Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the SDB Binary NY Virginis". The Astronomical Journal. 157 (5): 184. arXiv:1812.01726. Bibcode:2019AJ....157..184S. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab1139.
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