Planet Luhman 16 A

Detailed information about planet Luhman 16 A and its parameters.

Planet parameters Publications Observability Predictor

Planet

Name

Luhman 16 A

Planet Status

Confirmed

Discovered in

2013

Update

2024-07-15

Mass

34.2 (\pm 1.2)

M_J 3 publications

The JWST Weather Report from the Nearest Brown Dwarfs I: multi-period JWST NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of the benchmark binary brown dwarf WISE 1049AB
HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body
Updated astrometry and masses of the LUH 16 brown dwarf binary

Mass*sin(i)

—

Semi-Major Axis

3.67 (\pm 0.43)

AU 1 publication

HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body

Orbital Period

10600.0 (\begin{matrix} + 1800.0 \\ - 1500.0 \end{matrix})

day 1 publication

HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body

Eccentricity

0.42 (\begin{matrix} + 0.05 \\ - 0.09 \end{matrix})

1 publication

HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body

ω

140.3 (\begin{matrix} + 1.9 \\ - 4.3 \end{matrix})

deg 1 publication

HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body

T_peri

—

Radius

1.04

R_J

Inclination

80.15 (\begin{matrix} + 0.22 \\ - 0.36 \end{matrix})

deg 1 publication

HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body

Detection Method

Imaging

Mass Meas. Method

Astrometry

Radius Meas. Method

—

Primary transit

—

Secondary transit

—

λ

—

Impact Parameter b

—

Time V_r=0

—

Velocity Semiamplitude K

—

Calculated temperature

—

Measured temperature

1210.0

Hottest point longitude

—

Geometric albedo

—

Surface gravity log(g/g_H)

—

Alternate Names

WISE J104915.57-531906.1 A, LUH 16 A, 2MASS J10491891-5319100 A, WISE 1049 A

Data Source	Type	Result Value	Result Figure	Notes	Reference

Molecule	Data Source	Type	Result Value	Result Figure	Notes	Reference

Burgasser et al. (2013) : spectral type = L7.5
Lazorenko et al. (2018) : Temperature = 1350 K. The binary separation : 3.557 -0.023/+0.026 AU, period = 27.54-0.43/+0.39 y.

No link

System without star

Distance

1.998 (\pm 0.0004)

RA₂₀₀₀

10:49:18.9

Dec₂₀₀₀

-53:19:10.1

Planet Luhman 16 A

Planet

Basic informations 28 parameters

Atmospheric parameters : Temperatures 0 temperatures

Atmospheric parameters : Molecules 0 molecules

Remarks Some remarks

Other web pages No page

System without star

System informations 3 parameters

Planet Luhman 16 A

Planet

Basic informations 28 parameters

Atmospheric parameters : Temperatures 0 temperatures

Atmospheric parameters : Molecules 0 molecules

Remarks Some remarks

Other web pages No page

System without star

System informations 3 parameters

Related publications

Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features on the nearest brown dwarfs

The JWST Weather Report from the Nearest Brown Dwarfs I: multi-period JWST NIRSpec + MIRI monitoring of the benchmark binary brown dwarf WISE 1049AB

HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body

Nonequilibrium Hanbury-Brown-Twiss experiment: Theory and application to binary stars

The Oceanus Moving Group: A New 500 Myr Old Host for the Nearest Brown Dwarf

TESS Observations of the Luhman 16AB Brown Dwarf System: Rotational Periods, Lightcurve Evolution, and Zonal Circulation

Modeling Polarization Signals from Cloudy Brown Dwarfs: Luhman 16 A and B in Three Dimensions

Auto-Differentiable Spectrum Model for High-Dispersion Characterization of Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs

WISE 2150-7520AB: A Very Low-mass, Wide Comoving Brown Dwarf System Discovered through the Citizen Science Project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9

Hunting Exoplanets with Single-Mode Optical Interferometry

Updated astrometry and masses of the LUH 16 brown dwarf binary

Possible astrometric discovery of a substellar companion to the closest binary brown dwarf system WISE J104915.57-531906.1

Discovery of a binary brown dwarf at 2 pc from the Sun