HD 96167 b is a confirmed extrasolar planet located approximately 280 light years away in the constellation of Crater, orbiting the 8th magnitude G-type subgiant HD 96167. It is a Jupiter-type planet with an extremely elliptical orbit, coming as close as 0.4 AU to its star, and as much as 2.2 AU out. Thus, in the inner orbit the planet is as close to the star as Mercury is to the Sun, yet in the outer orbit the planet mostly resides in the habitable zone.[2][3] Its mass is that of 0.717 Jupiters, and an unknown radius, yet an approximation is that of 1.25 Jupiters.[4] These values are not certain, as the planet has not been measured by a transit observation. The planet was discovered on April 17, 2009. Not to be confused with the exoplanet HD 96167 b, the HD 96167 B is a close by stellar companion.
 HD 96167 b's orbit compared to the orbit of Mars (1.5AU) in the Solar System. This eccentric Jupiter has a comet-like orbit. | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Peek et al. |
| Discovery site | Lick and Keck Observatories |
| Discovery date | April 17, 2009 |
| radial velocity | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 1.332±0.092 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.681±0.033[1] |
| 498.1±0.81[1] d | |
| 2463060.3±4.5[1] | |
| 288.3±6.4[1] | |
| Semi-amplitude | 21.1±1.6[1] |
| Star | HD 96167 |
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Ment, Kristo; et al. (2018). "Radial Velocities from the N2K Project: Six New Cold Gas Giant Planets Orbiting HD 55696, HD 98736, HD 148164, HD 203473, and HD 211810". The Astronomical Journal. 156 (5). 213. arXiv:1809.01228. Bibcode:2018AJ....156..213M. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aae1f5. S2CID 119243619.
- ^ "eSky: HD 96167 b". www.glyphweb.com. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ^ Peek, John Asher; et al. (2009). "Old, rich, and eccentric: two jovian planets orbiting evolved metal-rich stars". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 121 (880): 613–620. arXiv:0904.2786. Bibcode:2009PASP..121..613P. doi:10.1086/599862. S2CID 12042779.
- ^ "Exoplanet-catalog". Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
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