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HD 30177 b

Index HD 30177 b

HD 30177 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 178 light-years away in the constellation of Dorado, orbiting the star HD 30177. [1]

17 relations: Anglo-Australian Planet Search, Anglo-Australian Telescope, Astronomical unit, Brown dwarf, Chris Tinney, Constellation, Doppler spectroscopy, Dorado, Exoplanet, Geoffrey Marcy, HD 30177, Light-year, Orbital inclination, Pi Mensae b, R. Paul Butler, Radial velocity, Star.

Anglo-Australian Planet Search

The Anglo-Australian Planet Search or (AAPS) is a long-term astronomical survey started in 1998 and continuing to the present.

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Anglo-Australian Telescope

The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) is a 3.9-metre equatorially mounted telescope operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory and situated at the Siding Spring Observatory, Australia at an altitude of a little over 1,100 m.

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Astronomical unit

The astronomical unit (symbol: au, ua, or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun.

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Brown dwarf

Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that occupy the mass range between the heaviest gas giant planets and the lightest stars, having masses between approximately 13 to 75–80 times that of Jupiter, or approximately to about.

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Chris Tinney

Chris Tinney is an astronomer at the University of New South Wales who is focused on extrasolar planet and brown dwarf research.

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Constellation

A constellation is a group of stars that are considered to form imaginary outlines or meaningful patterns on the celestial sphere, typically representing animals, mythological people or gods, mythological creatures, or manufactured devices.

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Doppler spectroscopy

Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star.

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Dorado

Dorado (English pronunciation) is a constellation in the southern sky.

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Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside our solar system.

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Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey William Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer.

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HD 30177

HD 30177 is an 8th magnitude star located approximately 172 light-years (53 parsecs) away in the constellation Dorado.

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Light-year

The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and measures about 9.5 trillion kilometres or 5.9 trillion miles.

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Orbital inclination

Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body.

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Pi Mensae b

Pi Mensae b (π Men b, π Mensae b), also known as HD 39091 b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 59 light-years away in the constellation of Mensa.

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R. Paul Butler

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Radial velocity

The radial velocity of an object with respect to a given point is the rate of change of the distance between the object and the point.

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Star

A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_30177_b

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