Luhman 16A

brown dwarf in the constellation Vela
Thing brown_dwarf Q88650836
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Luhman 16A

Summary

Luhman 16A is a brown dwarf[1].

Key Facts

  • Luhman 16A's instance of is recorded as brown dwarf[2].
  • Luhman 16A's instance of is recorded as exoplanet[3].
  • Luhman 16A's instance of is recorded as star[4].
  • Luhman 16A's constellation is recorded as Vela[5].
  • Luhman 16A's spectral class is recorded as L7.5[6].
  • Luhman 16A's Commons category is recorded as Luhman 16A[7].
  • Luhman 16A's parent astronomical body is recorded as WISE 1049-5319[8].
  • Luhman 16A's companion of is recorded as Luhman 16B[9].
  • Luhman 16A's catalog code is recorded as Gaia DR2 5353626573555863424[10].
  • Luhman 16A's catalog code is recorded as Luhman 16A[11].
  • Luhman 16A's catalog code is recorded as WISE J1049-5319A[12].
  • Luhman 16A's catalog code is recorded as WDS J10493-5319A[13].
  • Luhman 16A's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2013-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Luhman 16A's discovery method is recorded as direct imaging[15].
  • Luhman 16A's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.42'}[16].
  • Luhman 16A's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+16.9317'}[17].
  • Luhman 16A's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+11.53'}[18].
  • Luhman 16A's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+10.37'}[19].
  • Luhman 16A's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+9.44'}[20].
  • Luhman 16A's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+80.15'}[21].
  • Luhman 16A's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q651336', 'amount': '+34.2'}[22].
  • Luhman 16A's radius is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3421309', 'amount': '+1.04'}[23].
  • Luhman 16A's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+10600'}[24].
  • Luhman 16A's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.67'}[25].
  • Luhman 16A's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+140.3'}[26].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Resolved near-infrared spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: a flux-reversal binary at the l dwarf/T dwarf transition. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Resolved near-infrared spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: a flux-reversal binary at the l dwarf/T dwarf transition. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . Gaia Data Release 2. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Resolved near-infrared spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: a flux-reversal binary at the l dwarf/T dwarf transition. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Resolved near-infrared spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: a flux-reversal binary at the l dwarf/T dwarf transition. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . Resolved near-infrared spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: a flux-reversal binary at the l dwarf/T dwarf transition. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . HST astrometry of the closest Brown Dwarfs -- II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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