Discovery and spectroscopy of the young jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager

Macintosh, B.; Graham, J.~R R.; Barman, T.; De Rosa, R.~J J.; Konopacky, Q.; Marley, M.~S S.; Marois, C.; Nielsen, E.~L L.; Pueyo, L.; Rajan, A.; Rameau, J.; Saumon, D.; Wang, J.~J J.; Patience, J.; Ammons, M.; Arriaga, P.; Artigau, E.; Beckwith, S.; Brewster, J.; Bruzzone, S.; Bulger, J.; Burningham, B.; Burrows, A.~S S.; Chen, C.; Chiang, E.; Chilcote, J.~K K.; Dawson, R.~I I.; Dong, R.; Doyon, R.; Draper, Z.~H H.; Duchêne, G.; Esposito, T.~M M.; Fabrycky, D.; Fitzgerald, M.~P P.; Follette, K.~B B.; Fortney, J.~J J.; Gerard, B.; Goodsell, S.; Greenbaum, A.~Z Z.; Hibon, P.; Hinkley, S.; Hufford, T.; Cotten, T.~H H.; Hung, L.-W.; Ingraham, P.; Johnson-Groh, M.; Kalas, P.; Lafreniere, D.; Larkin, J.~E E.; Lee, J.; Line, M.; Long, D.; Maire, J.; Marchis, F.; Matthews, B.~C C.; Max, C.~E E.; Metchev, S.; Millar-Blanchaer, M.~A A.; Mittal, T.; Morley, C. V.; Morzinski, K.~M M.; Murray-Clay, R.; Oppenheimer, R.; Palmer, D.~W W.; Patel, R.; Perrin, M.~D D.; Poyneer, L.~A A.; Rafikov, R.~R R.; Rantakyrö, F.~T T.; Rice, E.~L L.; Rojo, P.; Rudy, A.~R R.; Ruffio, J.-B.; Ruiz, M.~T T.; Sadakuni, N.; Saddlemyer, L.; Salama, M.; Savransky, D.; Schneider, A.~C C.; Sivaramakrishnan, A.; Song, I.; Soummer, R.; Thomas, S.; Vasisht, G.; Wallace, J.~K K.; Ward-Duong, K.; Wiktorowicz, S.~J J.; Wolff, S.~G G.; Zuckerman, B.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 6256(350), p. 64-67, 2015

DOI: 10.1126/science.aac5891

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Discovery and spectroscopy of the young jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager

Journal article published in 2015 by B. Macintosh, J.~R R. Graham, T. Barman, R.~J J. De Rosa, Q. Konopacky, M.~S S. Marley

, C. Marois, E.~L L. Nielsen

, L. Pueyo, A. Rajan, J. Rameau, D. Saumon, J.~J J. Wang

, J. Patience, M. Ammons and other authors.

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Directly detecting thermal emission from young extrasolar planets allows measurement of their atmospheric compositions and luminosities, which are influenced by their formation mechanisms. Using the Gemini Planet Imager, we discovered a planet orbiting the ~20-million-year-old star 51 Eridani at a projected separation of 13 astronomical units. Near-infrared observations show a spectrum with strong methane and water-vapor absorption. Modeling of the spectra and photometry yields a luminosity (normalized by the luminosity of the Sun) of 1.6 to 4.0 × 10⁻⁶ and an effective temperature of 600 to 750 kelvin. For this age and luminosity, “hot-start” formation models indicate a mass twice that of Jupiter. This planet also has a sufficiently low luminosity to be consistent with the “cold-start” core-accretion process that may have formed Jupiter.

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