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Mu Arae c, also known as HD 160691 c, formally named Dulcinea (pronounced /dʌlˈsɪniə/ or /dʌlsɪˈnə/),[3] is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Mu Arae of the constellation Ara. It was the first 'hot Neptune' or 'mega-Earth' to be discovered.

Mu Arae c
Discovery
Discovered bySantos, Bouchy
Mayor, Pepe
Discovery siteLa Silla Observatory, Chile
Discovery dateAugust 25, 2004[1]
Detection method
HARPS
Orbital characteristics
Apastron0.10659 AU (15.946 million km)
Periastron0.07529 AU (11.263 million km)
Semi-major axis
0.09094 AU (13.604 million km)[2]
Eccentricity0.172 ± 0.040[2]
Orbital period (sidereal)
9.6386 ± 0.0015[2] d
0.02639 y
Time of periastron
2,452,991.1 ± 0.4[2]
Argument of periastron
212.7 ± 13.3[2]
Semi-amplitude3.06 ± 0.13[2]
StarMu Arae

    None of the four planets orbiting Mu Arae are directly visible from Earth using currently available tools. All four were found using the radial velocity method of extrasolar planet detection.


    Discovery


    The planet's discovery was announced on August 25, 2004.[1] At the time, its minimum mass was reported at just 14 times that of Earth,[4] although later work established a value of 10.5 Earth masses.[5] It orbits very close to Mu Arae, completing one revolution every 9.6 days. The discovery was made with the aid of the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph, at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The data that revealed the presence of this planet was gathered on 8 nights of observations in June 2004.


    Name


    In July 2014 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) launched NameExoWorlds, a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars.[6] The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names.[7] In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning name was Dulcinea for this planet.[8] The winning name was submitted by the Planetario de Pamplona, Spain. Dulcinea was the love interest of the lead character of the novel El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.[9]


    Characteristics


    Assuming its true mass is comparable to those of Neptune and Gliese 436 b, 14 Earth masses is theoretically the maximum size for a terrestrial planet. A rocky planet this size could certainly have formed, since Mu Arae has a higher metallicity than our Sun. Also, it is thought to have formed well inside the system's "snow line" at 3.2 AU.[4] However, various models of the system's formation have since converged that the planet attracted large amounts of volatiles before its star had cleared out the ice, and that it now has a core of only six Earth masses.[10] Its core is likely enveloped in so much hot ice and gas that the planet would behave more like Neptune.

    Mu Arae c is too far from its sun to be subject to coronal mass ejections. There is disagreement as to whether it is and has always been a hot Neptune in mass (Lammer),[11] or if it could have developed from a gas giant, losing most of its mass on the way (Baraffe).

    If an eroded gas giant, the sun would have boiled the planet from a larger protoplanet, of 20 Earth masses up to half Jupiter's mass. If the latter, its current radius could be as high as 0.6 Jupiter.[10]

    The planet must be hot because of its proximity to its star. The discoverers chose for it an albedo of 0.35, lighter than albedos chosen to calculate the temperatures of hot Jupiters such as Tau Boötis b. This was perhaps due to the discoverers' assumption that the planet would be a silicate super-terrestrial with neither clouds nor a deep Rayleigh scattering atmosphere. If so the surface temperature would be about 900 K.[4]


    See also



    References


    1. "Fourteen Times the Earth" (Press release). Garching, Germany: European Southern Observatory. August 25, 2004. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
    2. Pepe, F.; Correia, A. C. M.; Mayor, M.; Tamuz, O.; et al. (2007). "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. VIII. μ Arae, a system with four planets". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 462 (2): 769–776. arXiv:astro-ph/0608396. Bibcode:2007A&A...462..769P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066194.
    3. "Dulcinea". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
    4. N.C. Santos; F. Bouchy; M. Mayor; F. Pepe; D. Queloz; S. Udry; C. Lovis; M. Bazot; W. Benz; J.-L. Bertaux; G. Lo Curto; X. Delfosse; C. Mordasini; D. Naef; J.-P. Sivan & S. Vauclair (2004). "A 14 Earth-masses exoplanet around μ Arae". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 426: L19–L23. arXiv:astro-ph/0408471. Bibcode:2004A&A...426L..19S. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200400076.
    5. F. Pepe; A.C.M. Correia; M. Mayor; O. Tamuz; W. Benz; J.-L. Bertaux; F. Bouchy; J. Couetdic; J. Laskar; C. Lovis; D. Naef; D. Queloz; N. C. Santos; J.-P. Sivan; D. Sosnowska & S. Udry (2007). "μ Ara, a system with four planets". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 462 (2): 769–776. arXiv:astro-ph/0608396. Bibcode:2007A&A...462..769P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066194.
    6. NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide Contest to Name Exoplanets and their Host Stars. IAU.org. 9 July 2014
    7. "NameExoWorlds The Process". Archived from the original on 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
    8. Final Results of NameExoWorlds Public Vote Released, International Astronomical Union, 15 December 2015.
    9. "NameExoWorlds The Approved Names". Archived from the original on 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
    10. I. Baraffe; Y. Alibert; G. Chabrier; W. Benz (2005). "Birth and fate of hot-Neptune planets". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 450 (3): 1221–1229. arXiv:astro-ph/0512091. Bibcode:2006A&A...450.1221B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20054040.
    11. H. Lammer; et al. (2007). "The impact of nonthermal loss processes on planet masses from Neptunes to Jupiters" (PDF). Geophysical Research Abstracts. 9 (7850). The 0.09 AU sub-Jup is there called "HD160691d",


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    - [en] Mu Arae c

    [es] Dulcinea (planeta)

    Dulcinea (también conocido como Mu Arae c)[2] es el segundo planeta extrasolar que se descubrió en órbita alrededor de la estrella subgigante amarilla Cervantes. Situado en la constelación de Ara, a una distancia aproximada de 49,8 años luz de la Tierra, Dulcinea es el primer planeta en distancia desde su estrella de los cuatro planetas conocidos que componen el sistema planetario. Su descubrimiento fue anunciado el 25 de agosto de 2004.

    [ru] Мю Жертвенника c

    Мю Жертвенника c (известна также как Mu Arae c, μ Ara c, HD 160691 c, Дульсинея[1]) — планета-гигант, вращающаяся вокруг жёлтого карлика, в созвездии Жертвенник на расстоянии 50,6 св.л. от Земли. Открыта в 2004 году методом доплеровской спектроскопии[2]. Орбитальные параметры определены неокончательно, существует несколько возможных вариантов, наиболее вероятный из которых следующий: период обращения 9.6386 ± 0.0015 суток, большая полуось орбиты 0.09 а. е., эксцентриситет 0,57 ± 0,1 (сильно вытянутая орбита), аргумент перицентра (омега) (161 ± 8)°. Масса 0,03321 Юпитера.[3]



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