Astronomy:HD 102956 b

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Coordinates: Sky map 11h 51m 23.0s, +57° 38′ 27″

Short description: Extrasolar planet in the constellation Ursa Major
HD 102956 b / Isagel
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Artist's impression HD 102956 b
Discovery[1]
Discovered byJohnson et al.
Discovery siteKeck Observatory
Discovery date2010
Doppler spectroscopy
Orbital characteristics[2]
0.0807±0.0073 astronomical unit|AU
Eccentricity0.037±0.019
Orbital period6.49470±0.00019 d
|{{{apsis}}}|helion}}2455351.45±0.64 JD
301±33 º
Semi-amplitude74.6±1.8 m/s
StarHD 102956
Physical characteristics[2]
Mass≥0.960±0.023 Jupiter mass


HD 102956
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Ursa Major
Right ascension  11h 51m 22.5111s[3]
Declination +57° 38′ 26.6427″[3]
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage Main sequence
Spectral type A
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−25±83 km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: −11.24±0.049[3] mas/yr
Dec.: −17.578±0.049[3] mas/yr
Parallax (π)8.1753 ± 0.0290[3] mas
Distance399 ± 1 ly
(122.3 ± 0.4 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)2.5
Details
Mass1.68±0.11 M
Radius4.4±0.1 R
Luminosity (visual, LV)11.6±0.5 L
Temperature5054±44 K
Metallicity [Fe/H]+0.19±0.04 dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)0.30 km/s
Other designations
BD+58 1340, HIP 57820, SAO 28161, TYC 3839-00846-1, 2MASS J11512253+5738267[4]
Database references
SIMBADdata
Exoplanet Archivedata

HD 102956 b or Isagel is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2010 by a team of American astronomers led by John Johnson using Doppler spectroscopy and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. HD 102956 b is in the orbit of host star HD 102956. The planet is at most the mass of Jupiter, orbiting every 6.5 days at a distance of 12 million km. HD 202956 b has a very circular orbit.[1] The system is roughly 399 light years from us.

Discovery and nomenclature

HD 102956 is located inside the Big Dipper.

The name HD 102956 derives directly from the fact that the star is the 102,956th star catalogued in the Henry Draper catalog. The designation of b is given to the first planet orbiting a given star.

The star is one of the 2.5 million brightest stars in the sky and is part of the Tycho-2 Catalogue. It is not visible to the naked eye with an apparent magnitude of 8.

NameExoWorlds

In 2019 this planet was announced as part of the IAU NameExoWorlds project[5] where it was designated as the planet that will be named by Sweden. The winning proposal was Isagel, from Nobel laureate Harry Martinson's space poem Aniara.[6]

Characteristics Host Star

HD 102956 (Aniara) is an orange subgiant with a mass and radius of 1.68 and 4.4 solar, respectively. The surface temperature is about 5054 Kelvin. The luminosity of the star exceeds that of the sun by 11.6 times. The star's age is estimated at about 2.3 billion years.

Habitability and possibility of life

Since HD 102956 b is a hot Jupiter it is unlikely that it harbors life.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Johnson, John Asher et al. (2010). "A Hot Jupiter Orbiting the 1.7 M☉ Subgiant HD 102956". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 721 (2): L153–L157. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/721/2/L153. Bibcode2010ApJ...721L.153J. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Luhn, Jacob K. et al. (2019). "Retired A Stars and Their Companions. VIII. 15 New Planetary Signals around Subgiants and Transit Parameters for California Planet Search Planets with Subgiant Hosts". The Astronomical Journal 157 (4): 149. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aaf5d0. Bibcode2019AJ....157..149L. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  4. "HD 102956". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=HD+102956. 
  5. "Name an exoplanet (press release)". 2019-06-06. http://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/sweden. Retrieved 2019-06-13. 
  6. "Rymddikt gav namn åt Sveriges exoplanet" (in Swedish). 2019-12-17. https://fof.se/artikel/rymddikt-gav-namn-sveriges-exoplanet. Retrieved 2021-08-10. 

Coordinates: Sky map 11h 51m 23.0s, +57° 38′ 27″