Binary star system in the constellation Orion
HD 33636 is a G-type main-sequence star located approximately 96.5 light-years away in the Orion constellation . It is a 7th magnitude star with a metallicity of −0.05 ± 0.07. A likely substellar companion was discovered in 2002.[ 6] [ 7]
Companion
HD 33636 b was discovered in 2002 by the Keck telescope in Hawaii using the radial velocity method .[ 6] It was independently detected at the Haute-Provence Observatory in France .[ 2] With this method it showed a minimum mass of 9.28 Jupiter masses , and was initially assumed to be a planet and labelled "HD 33636 b" (lower-case).[ 8]
In 2007, Bean et al. used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astrometry to find that this body has an inclination as little as 4.1 ± 0.1°, which yielded a true mass of 142 M J . This is too high to be a planet. It was classified by this study as an M-dwarf star of likely spectral type M6V, "HD 33636 B" (upper-case).[ 9]
This picture was further revised in the 2020s. A 2023 study using astrometry from Hipparcos and Gaia found that the mass had likely been overestimated, and found a lower true mass of about 77.8 M J . This would place HD 33636 b near the borderline between stars and brown dwarfs .[ 4] A 2024 study using Gaia astrometry even excluded the possibility of a companion mass greater than 40 M J , instead finding a mass range more compatible with the initial minimum mass estimate. This study estimated a mass of about 15.4 M J , near the borderline between brown dwarfs and planets.[ 7]
This object takes 2121 days or 5.807 years to orbit at a semimajor axis of 3.33 astronomical units (AU).[ 4]
References
^ a b c d e Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties" . Astronomy and Astrophysics . 674 : A1. arXiv :2208.00211 . Bibcode :2023A&A...674A...1G . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/202243940 . S2CID 244398875 .
Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR .
^ a b c d Perrier, C.; et al. (2003). "The ELODIE survey for northern extra-solar planets. I. Six new extra-solar planet candidates". Astronomy and Astrophysics . 410 (3): 1039–1049. arXiv :astro-ph/0308281 . Bibcode :2003A&A...410.1039P . doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20031340 . S2CID 6946291 .
^ a b "HD 33636" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 26 September 2024 .
^ a b c Xiao, Guang-Yao; Liu, Yu-Juan; et al. (May 2023). "The Masses of a Sample of Radial-velocity Exoplanets with Astrometric Measurements". Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics . 23 (5): 055022. arXiv :2303.12409 . Bibcode :2023RAA....23e5022X . doi :10.1088/1674-4527/accb7e . S2CID 257663647 .
^ a b c d e f Bonfanti, A.; et al. (2015). "Revising the ages of planet-hosting stars" . Astronomy and Astrophysics . 575 . A18. arXiv :1411.4302 . Bibcode :2015A&A...575A..18B . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201424951 . S2CID 54555839 .
^ a b Vogt, Steven S.; et al. (2002). "Ten Low-Mass Companions from the Keck Precision Velocity Survey". The Astrophysical Journal . 568 (1): 352–362. arXiv :astro-ph/0110378 . Bibcode :2002ApJ...568..352V . doi :10.1086/338768 . S2CID 2272917 .
^ a b Kiefer, Flavien; Lagrange, Anne-Marie; Rubini, Pascal; Philipot, Florian (September 2024). "Searching for substellar companion candidates with Gaia. II. A catalog of 9,698 planet candidate solar-type hosts". Astronomy & Astrophysics . arXiv :2409.16993 .
^ Butler, R. P.; Wright, J. T.; et al. (July 2006). "Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets". The Astrophysical Journal . 646 (1): 505–522. arXiv :astro-ph/0607493 . Bibcode :2006ApJ...646..505B . doi :10.1086/504701 .
^ Bean, Jacob L.; et al. (2007). "The Mass of the Candidate Exoplanet Companion to HD 33636 from Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry and High-Precision Radial Velocities". The Astronomical Journal . 134 (2): 749–758. arXiv :0705.1861 . Bibcode :2007AJ....134..749B . doi :10.1086/519956 . S2CID 119599833 .