The BD+15 2940 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 1390.79 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 1.1 solar masses |
Radius | 14.7 solar radiae |
Temperature | 4796 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | 0.28 decimal exponent |
Age | 7.1 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, BD+15 2940 b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 352.780 Earth masses |
Density | 0.754 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 13.700 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.539 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.26 |
Orbital Period | 137.480 days |
Discovery Method | Radial Velocity |
Discovery Facility | McDonald Observatory |
Discovery Telescope | 9.2 m Hobby-Eberly Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | High Resolution Spectrograph |
Discovery Date | 2013-06 |
Reference | Nowak et al. 2013 |