The ups And Exoplanetary System
ups And is a star with 1.3 times the mass of the Sun, and 1.56 times its radius. It is located 43.74 light years away from the solar system and is estimated to be 5 billion years old, as compared to the Sun which is roughly 4.6 billion years old.
ups And is known to have 3 exoplanets in orbit around it.
ups And b
ups And b was discovered by the Lick Observatory observatory using the radial velocity method. Its discovery was announced in 1997-01. Its semi-major axis is 0.06 astronomical units, as compared to Earth's which is 1 astronomical unit. It takes 4.62 Earth days to complete an orbit around its host star, ups And.
Its eccentricity, the extent to which the shape of the exoplanet's orbit departs from a perfect circle (Earth's is 0.0167, which is why the shape of Earth's orbit is circular rather than oval in appearance), is 0.0215, which means that when ups And b is at is at its closest point to its host star, 0.06 astronomical units separates the two, and when it is at its farthest point, this number is 0.06. In the case of Earth, these numbers are 0.9832899 and 1.0167103 respectively.
The mass of ups And b is 218.53 times the mass of Earth. At more than 50 Earth masses, ups And b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system.
ups And c
ups And c was discovered by the Multiple Observatories observatory using the radial velocity method. Its discovery was announced in 1999-12. Its semi-major axis is 0.83 astronomical units, as compared to Earth's which is 1 astronomical unit. It takes 241.26 Earth days to complete an orbit around its host star, ups And.
Its eccentricity, the extent to which the shape of the exoplanet's orbit departs from a perfect circle (Earth's is 0.0167, which is why the shape of Earth's orbit is circular rather than oval in appearance), is 0.2596, which means that when ups And c is at is at its closest point to its host star, 0.61 astronomical units separates the two, and when it is at its farthest point, this number is 1.04. In the case of Earth, these numbers are 0.9832899 and 1.0167103 respectively.
The mass of ups And c is 629.58 times the mass of Earth. At more than 50 Earth masses, ups And c is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system.
ups And d
ups And d was discovered by the Multiple Observatories observatory using the radial velocity method. Its discovery was announced in 1999-12. Its semi-major axis is 2.51 astronomical units, as compared to Earth's which is 1 astronomical unit. It takes 1276.46 Earth days to complete an orbit around its host star, ups And.
Its eccentricity, the extent to which the shape of the exoplanet's orbit departs from a perfect circle (Earth's is 0.0167, which is why the shape of Earth's orbit is circular rather than oval in appearance), is 0.2987, which means that when ups And d is at is at its closest point to its host star, 1.76 astronomical units separates the two, and when it is at its farthest point, this number is 3.26. In the case of Earth, these numbers are 0.9832899 and 1.0167103 respectively.
The mass of ups And d is 1313.19 times the mass of Earth. At more than 50 Earth masses, ups And d is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system.