The bet Pic system contains 2 exoplanets. It is located 64.40 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 1.8 solar masses |
Radius | 1.54 solar radiae |
Temperature | 8038.68 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | -0.21 decimal exponent |
Age | 0.017 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, bet Pic b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 3729.122 Earth masses |
Density | 3.240 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 18.495 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 10.019926 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.105598 |
Orbital Period | 8617.510 days |
Discovery Method | Imaging |
Discovery Facility | Paranal Observatory |
Discovery Telescope | 8.2 m ESO VLT UT4 Yepun Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | NACO Camera |
Discovery Date | 2009-01 |
Reference | Lagrange et al. 2009 |
At more than 50 Earth masses, bet Pic c is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 3223.136 Earth masses |
Density | 9.070 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 12.500 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 2.680483 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.314213 |
Orbital Period | 1192.780 days |
Discovery Method | Radial Velocity |
Discovery Facility | La Silla Observatory |
Discovery Telescope | 3.6 m ESO Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | HARPS Spectrograph |
Discovery Date | 2019-08 |
Reference | Lagrange et al. 2019 |