describes exoplanet orbital and physical parameters. Most known extrasolar planet candidates have been discovered using indirect methods and therefore...
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Lists of planets (redirect from Lists of exoplanets)
orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the solar system are also known as exoplanets....
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Proxima Centauri b (category Exoplanets detected by radial velocity)
Proxima Centauri b is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri in the constellation Centaurus. It can also...
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Orbital elements are the parameters required to uniquely identify a specific orbit. In celestial mechanics these elements are considered in two-body systems...
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Disrupted planet (redirect from Disrupted exoplanet)
In astronomy, a disrupted planet is a planet or exoplanet or, perhaps on a somewhat smaller scale, a planetary-mass object, planetesimal, moon, exomoon...
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list of the largest exoplanets so far discovered, in terms of physical size, ordered by radius. This list of extrasolar objects may and will change over...
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exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and the...
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OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (category Exoplanets discovered in 2005)
planet's orbital eccentricity, as its orbital elements are not known, other than its orbital period). Until this discovery, no small exoplanet had been...
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Planet (redirect from Planetocentric orbit)
presents some challenges for exoplanets because the language is specific to the Solar System and the criteria of roundness and orbital zone clearance are not...
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relative position that an observed transiting exoplanet is while transiting a star, the observed physical parameters of the light curve will change. The transit...
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state of the exoplanets field in terms of their number and our understanding of their orbital and physical characteristics. EXOFAST Transit and Radial Velocity...
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The following is a list of exoplanet search projects. EXCEDE FINESSE Origins HabEx LUVOIR New Worlds Mission PEGASE Darwin EChO Eddington Space Interferometry...
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Habitable zone for complex life (section Exoplanets)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Habitable zone. Exoplanet orbital and physical parameters Habitability of natural satellites – liquid water on a...
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Qatar-5 (section Physical properties)
Laughlin, Gregory (2021), "Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). VI. The Homogeneous Refinement of System Parameters for 39 Transiting Hot Jupiters...
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2024 YR4 (section Physical characteristics)
orbital resonances, such as the 3:1 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter's orbital period at 2.5 AU and the ν6 secular resonance with Saturn's orbital precession...
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Jupiter (redirect from Physical characteristics of Jupiter)
forming a near orbital resonance. The orbital plane of Jupiter is inclined 1.30° compared to Earth. Because the eccentricity of its orbit is 0.049, Jupiter...
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rocky exoplanet tectonics has been driven by the results of numerical modeling studies. In such models, different planetary physical parameters are manipulated...
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CoRoT (redirect from COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits - Asteroseismology and Search for Exoplanets)
host star, in order to accurately determine the stellar parameters, from which further exoplanet characteristics can be derived. Such work is done with...
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the compact orbit of Galilean satellites. Possible circumplanetary disks have also been detected around exoplanets, HD 100546 b, AS 209 b and HD 169142...
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Kepler-22b (category Transiting exoplanets)
outer shell. The only parameters of the planet's orbit that are currently available are its orbital period (about 290 days) and its inclination (approximately...
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Epsilon Indi Ab (category Exoplanets discovered in 2018)
Epsilon Indi Ab is a gas giant exoplanet orbiting the star Epsilon Indi A, about 11.9 light-years away in the constellation of Indus. The planet was confirmed...
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Circumstellar disc (section Orbital evolution)
binary occurs, and can even lead to increased binary separations. The dynamics of orbital evolution depend on the binary's parameters, such as the mass...
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Kepler-1649c (category Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope)
Kepler-1649c is an Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Kepler-1649, the outermost planet of...
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(614689) 2020 XL5 (category Earth co-orbital asteroids)
at least several thousand years into the future based on existing orbital parameters. This would make 2020 XL5 more stable than the prototype L4 Earth...
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HD 209458 b (redirect from Osiris (exoplanet))
HD 209458 b is an exoplanet, specifically a hot Jupiter, that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 157 light-years (48...
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Tidal locking (redirect from Spin-orbit resonance)
roughly matching the orbital speed around perihelion. Many exoplanets (especially the close-in ones) are expected to be in spin–orbit resonances higher than...
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Kepler-1647b (category Exoplanets discovered in 2016)
which showed the planet in transit. The exoplanet is a gas giant, similar in size to Jupiter, and has an orbital period of 1107 days. This is the longest...
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resonance). The physical principle behind orbital resonance is similar in concept to pushing a child on a swing, whereby the orbit and the swing both have...
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Ross 128 b (category Exoplanets discovered in 2017)
Ross 128 b is a confirmed Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, that is orbiting near the inner edge of the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Ross 128...
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Gamma Cephei Ab (redirect from Tadmor (exoplanet))
named Tadmor /ˈtædmɔːr/, is an exoplanet approximately 45 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus that orbits Gamma Cephei A. The planet was...
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