Gliese 674 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 15 light years away in the constellation of Ara. This planet orbits tightly around Gliese 674. It is a sub-Neptune-or-Uranus-mass planet either gaseous or rocky. It orbits as close as 0.039 AU from the star and takes only 4.6938 days to orbit. This planet has a similar eccentricity to Mercury (e=0.2). The discovery of the planet was announced on January 7, 2007 by using the HARPS spectrograph mounted on the ESO's 3.6 meter telescope at La Silla, Chile.[1]
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Discovered by | Bonfils et al. |
Discovery site | ESO |
Discovery date | January 7, 2007 |
Detection method | HARPS |
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Semi-major axis | 0.039 AU (5,800,000 km) |
Eccentricity | 0.2 ± 0.02 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 4.6938 ± 0.007 d |
Time of periastron | 2453780.085 ± 0.078 |
Argument of periastron | 6 ± 200 |
Semi-amplitude | 8.70 ± 0.19 |
Star | Gliese 674 |
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