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Discovery and spectroscopy of the young jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager
Ist Teil von
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2015-10, Vol.350 (6256), p.64-67
Ort / Verlag
United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Quelle
Science (periodical)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Directly detecting thermal emission from young extrasolar planets allows measurement of their atmospheric compositions and luminosities, which are influenced by their formation mechanisms. Using the Gemini Planet Imager, we discovered a planet orbiting the ∼20-million-year-old star 51 Eridani at a projected separation of 13 astronomical units. Near-infrared observations show a spectrum with strong methane and water-vapor absorption. Modeling of the spectra and photometry yields a luminosity (normalized by the luminosity of the Sun) of 1.6 to 4.0 × 10–6 and an effective temperature of 600 to 750 kelvin. For this age and luminosity, "hot-start" formation models indicate a mass twice that of Jupiter. This planet also has a sufficiently low luminosity to be consistent with the "cold-start" core-accretion process that may have formed Jupiter.