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has gloss | eng: GD 66 b is an unconfirmed extrasolar planet orbiting the DAV type pulsating white dwarf GD 66. Small variations in the phase of pulsation suggest that the star is moving in a small circle due to the gravitational pull of a smaller unseen body. This method is similar to that used to discover pulsar planets, except that the observations were in visible light instead of radio waves.<ref name="Mullally2008a" /> The planet has not yet completed a full orbit during the time of observations and only one turning point of the observed-computed time curve has been observed, which makes it difficult to constrain the orbital parameters. The current best-fit circular orbit has a period of 5.69 years, with a planetary mass at least 2.36 times that of Jupiter (the measured quantity is the product of the true mass with the sine of the orbit's inclination angle). |
lexicalization | eng: GD 66 b |
instance of | c/Hypothetical extrasolar planets |
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