Extrasolar planet in the constellation Fornax
HD 20781 e is a hot Neptune around the star HD 20781. The planet has a minimum mass of 14.03 Earth masses[4] and it orbits with a semi-major axis of 0.3374 astronomical units and an orbital eccentricity of approximately 0.06.[2][4] With the same composition as Neptune, it would have a radius of 3.79 times that of the Earth. With the same composition as Earth, it would have a radius of 2.08 times that of the Earth. It orbits near the inner edge of the habitable zone of HD 20781.[citation needed]
This planet was initially reported in a 2011 preprint, which referred to it as HD 20781 c.[1] However, the 2017 paper (published in a journal in 2019) that confirmed the planet designated it HD 20781 e, using the c designation for a different, shorter-period planet.[4]
References
- ^ a b Mayor, M.; Marmier, M.; Lovis, C.; Udry, S.; Ségransan, D.; Pepe, F.; Benz, W.; Bertaux, J.-L.; Bouchy, F.; Dumusque, X.; Curto, G. Lo; Mordasini, C.; Queloz, D.; Santos, N. C. (2011). "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXXIV. Occurrence, mass distribution and orbital properties of super-Earths and Neptune-mass planets". arXiv:1109.2497 [astro-ph.EP].
- ^ a b c "Exoplanet Catalog HD 20781". NASA. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "Planet HD 20781 e". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Udry, S.; Dumusque, X.; Lovis, C.; Ségransan, D.; Diaz, R. F.; Benz, W.; Bouchy, F.; Coffinet, A.; Lo Curto, G.; Mayor, M.; Mordasini, C.; Motalebi, F.; Pepe, F.; Queloz, D.; Santos, N. C.; Wyttenbach, A.; Alonso, R.; Collier Cameron, A.; Deleuil, M.; Figueira, P.; Gillon, M.; Moutou, C.; Pollacco, D.; Pompei, E. (February 2019). "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets: XLIV. Eight HARPS multi-planet systems hosting 20 super-Earth and Neptune-mass companions". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 622: A37. arXiv:1705.05153. Bibcode:2019A&A...622A..37U. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731173. ISSN 0004-6361.
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