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2m 1237+6526

2m 1237+6526

Cletus, Jody

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Astronomy & Space

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ISBN10: 6139062896
ISBN13: 9786139062898
Publisher: Plaispub
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 2MASS J12373919+6526148 (hereafter 2M 1237+6526) is a brown dwarf object with late spectral type T in the constellation of Draco, nearly 46 light-years away from Sun, although trigonometric parallax of 96.07 4.78 mas yields distance of 33.9 1.8 light-years (or 10.4 0.5 parsecs). The substellar object could likely host a very low-mass companion (yet undetected but inferred), possibly in planetary regime. Burgasser et al. (2003) have inferred the presence of a low-mass companion orbiting the brown dwarf 2M 1237+6526. Such object would yield a mass between 3 and 12 times that of Jupiter and take nearly 4.56 hours (0.19 days) to revolve around its dim primary. If confirmed it would be the shortest period exoplanet and orbiting the faintest object so far. Accounting very faint luminosity of the primary (6.25/1,000,000th of Sun's luminosity), the water zone is located within 0.0025 Astronomical Units, so putative planet could likely retain great amounts of water] and ammonia. Moreover both the objects would appear the same size.

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