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    Tau Bootis

    Tau Bootis
    Artist impression. Credit: PPARC
    A nearby binary star system in the constellation Boötes. It consists of an F star primary, Tau Bootis A, and a red dwarf companion, Tau Bootis B. The red dwarf moves around the primary in an extraordinarily elongated path (eccentricity = 0.91), taking about 2,000 years to complete each circuit at an average distance of 245 astronomical units (37 billion km, or 23 billion miles). A massive planet has been found in orbit around the primary at less than one eighth the distance of Mercury from the Sun, making it one of the most extreme examples yet found of an epistellar jovian.


    Host star : Tau Bootis A
    Apparent magnitude 4.50
    Spectral type IV
    Distance 50.84 light-years (15.60 pc)
    Temperature 6,340 K (6,070°C)
    Luminosity (Sun = 1) 3.4
    Mass (Sun = 1) 1.3
    Position R.A. 13h 47m 15.7s, Dec. +17° 27' 25"
    Other designations 4 Boötis, GJ 527, HR 5185, BD +18°2782, HD 120136, SAO 100706, HIP 67275, GC 18637


    Planet
    Mass (Jupiter = 1) 4.13
    Semimajor axis 0.05 AU (7.5 million km, 4.7 million miles)
    Orbital period 3.31 days
    Eccentricity 0.015
    Year of discovery 1996
    Discoverers Butler et al, Berkeley Planet Search
    Method of discovery radial velocity


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