Image Details

Choose export citation format:

A Wide Planetary Mass Companion Discovered through the Citizen Science Project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9

  • Authors: Jacqueline K. Faherty, Jonathan Gagné, Mark Popinchalk, Johanna M. Vos, Adam J. Burgasser, Jörg Schümann, Adam C. Schneider, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Aaron M. Meisner, Marc J. Kuchner, Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, Federico Marocco, Dan Caselden, Eileen C. Gonzales, Austin Rothermich, Sarah L. Casewell, John H. Debes, Christian Aganze, Andrew Ayala, Chih-Chun Hsu, William J. Cooper, R. L. Smart, Roman Gerasimov, and Christopher A. Theissen

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 923 48.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

The finder chart for the BD+60 1417 and W1243+6001 system taken from the WiseView website (Caselden et al. 2018). To see the animated motion between available WISE epochs visit http://byw.tools/wiseview-v2 and use coordinates R.A., decl.=190.88751026191, 60.01435471736.

Other Images in This Article
Copyright and Terms & Conditions