UScoCTIO 108

Starbox begin
name=UScoCTIO 108AStarbox observe
epoch=J2000.0 (ICRS)
constell=Scorpius
ra=RA|16|05|53.94SIMBAD link|UScoCTIO+108|UScoCTIO 108, entry, SIMBAD. Accessed on line June 17, 2008.]
dec=DEC|−18|18|42.7Starbox character
class = M7Starbox astrometry
dist_pc = 145 ± 2Discovery of a Wide Companion near the Deuterium-burning Mass Limit in the Upper Scorpius Association, V. J. S. Bejar, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, A. Perez-Garrido, C. Álvarez, E. L. Martin, R. Rebolo, I. Villó-Pérez, and A. Díaz-Sánchez, "Astrophysical Journal" 673, #2 (February 2008), pp. L185–L189. bibcode|2008ApJ...673L.185B doi|10.1086/527557.]
dist_ly = 473 ± 6 Starbox detail
mass = 0.06 ± 0.02
luminosity = 0.01
temperature = 2700 ± 100 Starbox reference
Simbad=UScoCTIO+108Starbox begin
name=UScoCTIO 108BStarbox relpos
primary = A
epoch = J2007.5
angdistsec = 4.6 ± 0.1
angdistmas =
angdistref =
posang = 177 ± 1
posangref =
projsep = ~670
projsepref = Starbox character
class = M9.5–L3Starbox detail
mass = 0.013^+0.002_−0.008
luminosity = 0.0007
temperature = 2350⁺¹⁰⁰₋₄₀₀ Starbox catalog
names=UscoCTIO 108b [SIMBAD link|NAME+UScoCTIO+108b|NAME UScoCTIO 108b, entry, SIMBAD. Accessed on line June 17, 2008.] Starbox reference
Simbad=NAME+UScoCTIO+108b

UScoCTIO 108 is a binary system, approximately 470 light-years away in the Upper Scorpius (USco) OB association. The primary, UScoCTIO 108A, with mass around 0.06 solar masses, is a brown dwarf or low-mass red dwarf. The secondary, UScoCTIO 108B, with a mass around the deuterium-burning limit of 13 Jupiter masses, would be classified as either a brown dwarf or an extrasolar planet.

References

External Links

* [http://exoplanet.eu/star.php?st=UScoCTIO+108 Star: UScoCTIO 108] , "Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia". Accessed on line June 17, 2008.