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Exoplanet Discoveries and Updates
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Today a new paper that described a nearby star TZ Arietis came out. The paper finds a Saturn-massed planet in a wide, eccentric, and possibly misaligned orbit. This suggest that the star system went through planet-planet scattering. For a star with only 0.15 solar masses, it's certainly an unusual find.

The other two planets found by a previous paper were discredited.

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TZ Arietis b
Semi-major axis: 0.88 AU
Orbital period: 771.36 days
Eccentricity: 0.46
Minimum mass: 0.21 Jupiter masses

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Exoplanet Discoveries and Updates - by AstroChara - 07-27-2019, 10:19 PM
RE: Updating planetary systems - by AstroChara - 08-21-2019, 11:48 PM
RE: Exoplanet Discoveries and Updates - by AstroChara - 03-31-2022, 11:51 AM

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