Astronomy:OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb
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Short description: Sub-Saturn exoplanet orbiting OGLE-2018-BLG-0799L
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovery site | OGLE |
| Discovery date | October 2020 (published August 2022) |
| Gravitional Microlensing | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 1.38+0.61 −0.31 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mass | 0.22 MJ |
OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb is a sub-Saturn-mass exoplanet discovered by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) collaboration, through a gravitational microlensing event that occurred in May 2018. The discovery was announced in October 2020, and published in August 2022.[1]
It has a mass of 0.22 Jupiter masses and is 14,400 light years away from earth. It orbits a dwarf star of approximately 0.08 solar masses.[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zang, Weicheng; Shvartzvald, Yossi; Udalski, Andrzej; Yee, Jennifer C.; Lee, Chung-Uk; Sumi, Takahiro; Zhang, Xiangyu; Yang, Hongjing et al. (August 2022). "OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb: a q∼2.7×10−3 planet with Spitzer parallax". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 514 (4): 5952–5968. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac1631. Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.514.5952Z.
- ↑ "New sub-Saturn-mass exoplanet discovered" (in en). https://phys.org/news/2020-10-sub-saturn-mass-exoplanet.html.
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