OGLE-2005-BLG-071L

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OGLE-2005-BLG-071L
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0        Equinox J2000.0
Constellation Scorpius
Right ascension 17h 50m 09.77s [1]
Declination –34° 40′ 23.5″ [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)19.5
Characteristics
Spectral type M5 [1]
Astrometry
Distance 3,500±300 [2]   pc
Details
Mass 0.426±0.037 [2]   M☉
Other designations
EWS 2005-BUL-71, EWS 2005-BLG-71
Database references
SIMBAD data

OGLE-2005-BLG-071L is a distant, magnitude 19.5 galactic bulge star located in the constellation Scorpius, approximately 11,000 light years away from the Solar System. The star is probably a red dwarf with a mass 43% of that of the Sun.

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Planetary system

In 2005 an exoplanet was discovered orbiting this star by the microlensing method, [3] the second planet found by this method. [2] The planet was later confirmed by the Keck telescope and its properties were refined. [2]

The OGLE-2005-BLG-071L planetary system [1]
Companion
(in order from star)		 Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)		 Orbital period
(days)		 Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b 3.8 +0.3
−0.4
or 3.4 ± 0.3  MJ 		3.6 ± 0.2
or 2.1 ± 0.1		————

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dong, Subo; et al. (2009). "OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion?". The Astrophysical Journal. 695 (2): 970–987. arXiv: 0804.1354 . Bibcode:2009ApJ...695..970D. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/695/2/970. S2CID   119186629.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bennett, David P.; Bhattacharya, Aparna; Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe; Blackman, Joshua W.; Vandorou, Aikaterini; Terry, Sean K.; Cole, Andrew A.; Henderson, Calen B.; Koshimoto, Naoki; Lu, Jessica R.; Baptiste Marquette, Jean; Ranc, Clément; Udalski, Andrzej (2020). "Keck Observations Confirm a Super-Jupiter Planet Orbiting M Dwarf OGLE-2005-BLG-071L". The Astronomical Journal. 159 (2): 68. arXiv: 1909.04740 . Bibcode:2020AJ....159...68B. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab6212 . S2CID   202558435.
  3. ↑ Udalski, A.; et al. (2005). "A Jovian-Mass Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2005-BLG-071". The Astrophysical Journal. 628 (2): L109 –L112. arXiv: astro-ph/0505451 . Bibcode:2005ApJ...628L.109U. doi:10.1086/432795. S2CID   7425167.


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