HD 106252 b

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HD 106252 b is most likely a brown dwarf orbiting the yellow dwarf HD 106252 .

HD 106252 b orbits its companion star every 1531 days with a semi-major axis of 2.7 astronomical units . Its mass is estimated at around 30 Jupiter masses (3 σ - confidence interval 6.92–68.9 Jupiter masses).

HD 106252 b was published by Debra Fischer , Geoffrey Marcy , R. Paul Butler , Steven Vogt et al. discovered using the radial velocity method and published in 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. a b S. Reffert, A. Quirrenbach: Mass constraints on substellar companion candidates from the re-reduced Hipparcos intermediate astrometric data: nine confirmed planets and two confirmed brown dwarfs . In: Astronomy & Astrophysics . tape 527 , A140, February 11, 2011, ISSN  0004-6361 , doi : 10.1051 / 0004-6361 / 201015861 , bibcode : 2011A & A ... 527A.140R .
  2. a b HD 106252 b. In: The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .