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Radial velocity · 2009

HD 134987 c

This world receives 18.7× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 13.7 years; the light you see left it 85 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
13.7 years5.8 AU
Temperature
−148 °C125 K

About this world

HD 134987 c is a gas giant orbiting HD 134987, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G5V) 85.4 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.82 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 13.7 years at 5.8 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 125 K (−148 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2009 by radial velocity with Multiple Observatories. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum. HD 134987 has 2 known planets; the others are HD 134987 b.

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