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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 10.

Mass ratio vs. separation for a collection of companions from stellar to planetary. We have color coded the exoplanet detections (as defined by the Exoplanet Archive) by the detection method of the source.

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