VHS 1256-1257
The planetary system VHS 1256-1257 hosts at least one planet. Note that the system is a multiple star system. It hosts at least 2 stellar components.
| System parameters | |
|---|---|
| Primary system name | VHS 1256-1257 |
| Alternative system names | VHS J125602.15-125721.7 |
| Right ascension | 12 56 01.922 |
| Declination | -12 57 23.990 |
| Distance [parsec] | 12.7±1.0 |
| Distance [lightyears] | 41±3 |
| Number of stars in system | 2 |
| Number of planets in system | 1 |
Architecture of the system
This list shows all planetary and stellar components in the system. It gives a quick overview of the hierarchical architecture.
- Stellar binary
VHS 1256-1257 A, stellar object- VHS 1256-1257 B, stellar object
VHS 1256-1257 b, circumbinary planet, P-type
Planets in the system
This table lists all planets in the system VHS 1256-1257.
| VHS 1256-1257 b | |
|---|---|
| Alternative planet names | VHS J125602.15-125721.7 b, 2MASS J125601.83-125727.6 |
| Description | VHS 1256-1257 b is a common-proper motion L-dwarf companion of a nearby red dwarf star. It is cooler than expected for a field L-dwarf, and its mass is close to the deuterium-burning limit. The primary was discovered to be a binary of near-equal mass brown dwarfs, there exists a discrepancy between the parallax distance and the spectrophotometric distance to the system. |
| Lists | Confirmed planets; Planets in binary systems, P-type |
| Mass [Mjup] | 11.2 |
| Mass [Mearth] | 3560 |
| Radius [Rjup] | N/A |
| Radius [Rearth] | N/A |
| Orbital period [days] | N/A |
| Semi-major axis [AU] | N/A |
| Eccentricity | N/A |
| Equilibrium temperature [K] | 880 |
| Discovery method | imaging |
| Discovery year | 2015 |
| Last updated [yy/mm/dd] | 17/11/30 |
Stars in the system
This table lists all stars in the system VHS 1256-1257.
| VHS 1256-1257 A | VHS 1256-1257 B | |
|---|---|---|
| Alternative star names | VHS J125602.15-125721.7 A, 2MASS J125602.15-125721.7 A | VHS J125602.15-125721.7 B, 2MASS J125602.15-125721.7 B |
| Mass [MSun] | > 0.0616 | |
| Radius [RSun] | N/A | N/A |
| Age [Gyr] | > 0.2800 | |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | N/A | N/A |
| Temperature [K] | N/A | N/A |
| Spectral type | M7.5 | |
| Visual magnitude | N/A | N/A |
Planet sizes
The following plot shows the approximate sizes of the planets in this system The Solar System planets are shown as a comparison. Note that unless the radius has been determined through a transit observation, this is only an approximation (see Lissauer et al. 2011b).
Scientific references and contributors
Links to scientific papers and other data sources
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...804...96G
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...818L..12S
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This table lists all links which are relevant to this particular system. Note that this is just a summary. More references to the scientific publications and comments can be found in the commit messages. To see these, head over the github or click here to directly go to the git blame output of this system. In the left column of the output you can see the commit message corresponding to each parameter. It also lists the date of the last commit and the person making the changes. Within the commit message, you will find a link to the scientific publication where the data is taken from. Note that this is a new feature and not all system parameters might have a reference associated with it yet. Please help making this catalogue better and contribute data or references!
Open Exoplanet Catalogue contributors
| Contributor | Number of commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Tribick | ajtribick(at)googlemail.com | 2 |
| Hanno Rein | hanno(at)hanno-rein.de | 1 |
| Ryan Varley | ryanjvarley(at)gmail.com | 2 |
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Data download
You can download the xml file corresponding to this planetary system, which is part of the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. All information on this page has been directly generated from this XML file. You can also download the entire catalogue over at github. If you prefer to download the dataset as an ASCII tables, you might find the oec_tables repository useful.
Corrections
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