Magnitude 16.26 | Constellation Orion | |
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Exoplanet cvso 30c detected by direct imaging
CVSO 30 (PTFO 8-8695) is a star, located in constellation Orion at 1200 light years from Earth away with two candidate planets (CVSO 30 b and CVSO 30 c). Both candidate planets are gas giants. It is the first star around which potential planets have been found both by the transit method and by direct imaging.
CVSO 30 b is calculated to have a period of 10.76 hours (0.008 AU) and CVSO 30 c a period of 27,000 years (660 AU). B is a Hot Jupiter candidate planet orbiting the T Tauri star, with 6.2 Jupiter masses, but faces imminent destruction as its orbit is rapidly precessing, causing it to stop transiting during part of its orbital evolution. Having ballooned up to twice the radius of Jupiter, the strong gravity of the host star is currently ripping away the outer layers.
Direct imaging of CVSO 30 c, with 4.7 Jupiter masses, has been achieved through photometric and spectroscopic high contrast observations carried out with the Very Large Telescope located in Chile, the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.