HD 76700

Starbox short
name=HD 76700
epoch=2000
constell=Volans
ra=8^h 53^m 55.52^s
dec=-66° 48' 3.57"
spectral=G6V
appmag_v=8.13
dist_ly=194.6
dist_pc=59.70
names=CD-66°656, HIP 43686

HD 76700 is a yellow dwarf star (spectral type G6 V) 195 light years from Earth in the constellation of Volans. It has a mass very similar to our Sun, but is cooler and brighter and thus much older. It is orbited by a recently discovered planet.

HD 76700 b

Planetbox begin
name=HD 76700 bPlanetbox orbit
semimajor=0.0511±0.0030
eccentricity=0.095±0.075
period=3.97097±0.00023
ang_dist=0.821
long_peri=30
t_peri=2,451,213.32±0.67
semi-amp=27.6±1.7Planetbox character
mass=>0.233±0.024Planetbox discovery
discovery_date=July 5, 2002
discovery_method=Radial velocity
discovery_site=Geneva Observatory in France
discoverers=Tinney, Butler,
Marcy et al.
discovery_status=Published

HD 76700 b is a planet discovered orbiting the star in 2002. The planet is a gas giant a fifth the mass of Jupiter. It orbits very close to its parent star and completes one orbit in less than four days.

References

*cite journal | url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/368068 | author=Tinney "et al." | title=Four New Planets Orbiting Metal-enriched Stars | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=587 | issue=1 | year=2003 | pages=423 – 428 | doi=10.1086/368068
*cite journal|doi= 10.1086/504701|author=Butler "et al." | title=Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=646 | issue=1 | pages=505 – 522 | year=2006 ( [http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph?papernum=0607493 web Preprint] )

External links

* [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad SIMBAD] [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-id.pl?protocol=html&Ident=HD+76700 star entry] , [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-id.pl?protocol=html&Ident=HD+76700+B planet entry]
* [http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia] [http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/HD76700.html entry]
* [http://www.extrasolar.net Extrasolar Visions] [http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour.asp?StarCatId=&PlanetId=218 entry]
* [http://jumk.de/astronomie/astronomy.shtml Stars and Planets] [http://jumk.de/astronomie/sterne-4/hd-76700.shtml entry]