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LHS 1815 b (also TOI-704 b) is a thick disk exoplanet, discovered in 2020 by TESS. The planet is located outside the galactic plane.

Characteristics

LHS 1815 b is a terrestrial planet (super-Earth) with a mass of 0.0132 M_J and a radius of 0.09707 R_J and was discovered by TESS in 2020. The planet is the first discovered example of a "thick-disk planet" located within a thick disk, one of the galactic structures much higher, than the positions of other planetary systems discovered by TESS.

Orbit

The orbital period is 3.81433 days and the semimajor axis is 0.0404 au.

Other designations

LHS 1815 b is also known as TOI-704 b and TIC 260004324 b.

References

1. Gan, Tianjun; Shporer, Avi; Livingston, John H.; Collins, Karen A.; Mao, Shude; Trani, Alessandro A.; Gandolfi, Davide; Hirano, Teruyuki; Luque, Rafael; Stassun, Keivan G.; Ziegler, Carl; Howell, Steve B.; Hellier, Coel; Irwin, Jonathan M.; Winters, Jennifer G.; Anderson, David R.; Briceño, César; Law, Nicholas; Mann, Andrew W.; Bonfils, Xavier; Astudillo-Defru, Nicola; Jensen, Eric L. N.; Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Ricker, George R.; Vanderspek, Roland; Latham, David W.; Seager, Sara; Winn, Joshua N.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Furesz, Gabor; Guerrero, Natalia M.; Quintana, Elisa; Twicken, Joseph D.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Tenenbaum, Peter; Huang, Chelsea X.; Rowden, Pamela; Rojas-Ayala, Bárbara (18 March 2020). "LHS 1815b: The First Thick-disk Planet Detected by TESS". The Astronomical Journal. 159 (4): 160. arXiv:2003.04525. Bibcode:2020AJ....159..160G. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab775a. hdl:1721.1/125260. ISSN 1538-3881. S2CID 212644667.
2. Martin, Pierre-Yves (1995). "Planet LHS 1815 b". exoplanet.eu. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
3. ^ Gan, Tianjun; Shporer, Avi; Livingston, John H.; Collins, Karen A.; Mao, Shude; Trani, Alessandro A.; Gandolfi, Davide; Hirano, Teruyuki; Luque, Rafael; Stassun, Keivan G.; Ziegler, Carl; Howell, Steve B.; Hellier, Coel; Irwin, Jonathan M.; Winters, Jennifer G. (2020-04-01). "LHS 1815b: The First Thick-disk Planet Detected by TESS". The Astronomical Journal. 159 (4): 160. arXiv:2003.04525. Bibcode:2020AJ....159..160G. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab775a. ISSN 0004-6256.

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Stars	Bayer α β γ δ ζ η η θ ι κ λ μ ν μ Dor Variable R S RR SW TU TV TW TX AB AE AK VZ HR 1498 1667 1727 1742 1813 1856 1860 1912 1984 2008 2023 2032 2044 2049 2072 2089 2094 2114 2117 2138 2274 2336 2337 2345 2354 2360 2369 2389 2562 HD 37781 40307 41004 41248 Other 2MASS J05581644–4501559 EBLM J0555-57 NGC 1995 PSR J0437−4715 TOI-270 TOI-1338 WISE 0647−6232
Exoplanets AB Pictoris b β Pictoris b c HD 40307 b c d e f g HR 2562 B LHS 1815 b TOI-1338 b c
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