Planet NY Vir b

Name NY Vir b
Discovered in 2011
M × sin i 2.3 ± 0.3 MJ
Semi-major axis 3.3 AU
Orbital period 2900 days
Eccentricity
ω
Tperi
Radius
Inclination
Update Dec. 20, 2011
Detection method pulsar
Molecules detected

Remarks

20 Dec 2011: The planet candidate is infered from variations (O-C) in the timing of eclipses of the parent star eclipsing binary (Qian et al. 2011).

Star

Name NY Vir
Distance
Spectral type B D
Apparent magnitude V 13.3
Mass 0.6 MSun
Age Gyr
Effective temperature 33000 K
Radius RSun
Metallicity [Fe/H]
RA2000 13:38:48.0
Dec2000 -02:01:49
Planetary system 2 planets

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Related publications

A Uniformly Derived Catalogue of Exoplanets from Radial Velocities
Feb. 10, 2012 HOLLIS M., BALAN S., LEVER G. & LAHAV O.
MNRAS
arxiv

Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the Rapidly Pulsating Subdwarf B-type binary NY Vir
Jan. 16, 2012 QIAN S.-B., ZHU L.-Y., DAI Z.-B., F.-Y. XIANG, FERNANDEZ LAJUS E. & HE J.-J.
ApJ. Letters, 745, L23
paper   arxiv

The Exoplanet Handbook
May 22, 2012 Michael Perryman
Content
Content and Chapter 5