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Radial velocity · 2012

eps CrB b

This world receives 102× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 418 days; the light you see left it 228 years ago.

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Size
1.1 × Jupiterestimated
A year
418 days1.3 AU
Temperature
581 °C854 K

About this world

eps CrB b is a gas giant orbiting eps CrB, a giant star (type K2III) 228 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.1 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 6.7 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 418 days at 1.3 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 854 K (581 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2012 by radial velocity with Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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