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Luhman 16B

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Luhman 16B

Summary

Luhman 16B is a brown dwarf[1].

Key Facts

  • Luhman 16B's instance of is recorded as brown dwarf[2].
  • Luhman 16B's instance of is recorded as exoplanet[3].
  • Luhman 16B's instance of is recorded as star[4].
  • Luhman 16B's constellation is recorded as Vela[5].
  • Luhman 16B's spectral class is recorded as T0.5[6].
  • Luhman 16B's parent astronomical body is recorded as WISE 1049-5319[7].
  • Luhman 16B's companion of is recorded as Luhman 16A[8].
  • Luhman 16B's catalog code is recorded as Gaia DR2 5353626573562355584[9].
  • Luhman 16B's catalog code is recorded as Luhman 16B[10].
  • Luhman 16B's catalog code is recorded as WISE J1049-5319B[11].
  • Luhman 16B's catalog code is recorded as WDS J10493-5319B[12].
  • Luhman 16B's catalog code is recorded as TIC 119862115b[13].
  • Luhman 16B's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2013-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Luhman 16B's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2017-09-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Luhman 16B's discovery method is recorded as direct imaging[16].
  • Luhman 16B's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.344'}[17].
  • Luhman 16B's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+16.9622'}[18].
  • Luhman 16B's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+11.22'}[19].
  • Luhman 16B's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+10.39'}[20].
  • Luhman 16B's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+9.73'}[21].
  • Luhman 16B's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+79.92'}[22].
  • Luhman 16B's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q651336', 'amount': '+29.4'}[23].
  • Luhman 16B's radius is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3421309', 'amount': '+0.84'}[24].
  • Luhman 16B's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+9697'}[25].
  • Luhman 16B's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.52'}[26].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Individual, Model-independent Masses of the Closest Known Brown Dwarf Binary to the Sun. 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] ↑ . Resolved near-infrared spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: a flux-reversal binary at the l dwarf/T dwarf transition. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Exoplanet Archive. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Individual, Model-independent Masses of the Closest Known Brown Dwarf Binary to the Sun. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Individual, Model-independent Masses of the Closest Known Brown Dwarf Binary to the Sun. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . HST astrometry of the closest brown dwarfs-II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Gaia Data Release 2. 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] ↑ . Resolved near-infrared spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: a flux-reversal binary at the l dwarf/T dwarf transition. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . HST astrometry of the closest brown dwarfs-II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . HST astrometry of the closest brown dwarfs-II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . Nonequilibrium Hanbury-Brown-Twiss experiment: Theory and application to binary stars. 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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