Luhman 16B
brown dwarf
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Summary
Luhman 16B is a brown dwarf[1].
Key Facts
- Instance of: exoplanet[2], star[3]
- Constellation: Vela[4]
- Spectral class: T0.5[5]
- Parent astronomical body: WISE 1049-5319[6]
- Companion of: Luhman 16A[7]
- Catalog code: Gaia DR2 5353626573562355584[8], Luhman 16B[9], WISE J1049-5319B[10], WDS J10493-5319B[11], TIC 119862115b[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: 2013[13], September 2017[14]
- Discovery method: direct imaging[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.344[16]
- Apparent magnitude: 16.9622[17], 11.22[18], 10.39[19], 9.73[20]
- Orbital inclination: 79.92 degree[21]
- Mass: 29.4 Jupiter mass[22]
- Radius: 0.84 Jupiter radius[23]
- Orbital period: 9697 day[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.52 astronomical unit[25]