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Radial velocity · 2022

HD 97037 b

This world receives 28× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 17.7 years; the light you see left it 106 years ago.

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Size
1.1 × Jupiterestimated
A year
17.7 years6.92 AU
Temperature
−152 °C121 K

About this world

HD 97037 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 97037, a yellow, Sun-like star 106 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.1 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass) and holds 21 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 17.7 years at 6.9 AU from its star, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.36).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 121 K (−152 °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 2022 by radial velocity with Multiple Observatories. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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