HD 10647 (q¹ Eridani) is a 6th- magnitude

yellow-white dwarf An F-type main-sequence star (F V) is a main-sequence, hydrogen-fusing star of spectral type F and luminosity class V. These stars have from 1.0 to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun and surface temperatures between 6,000 and 7,600 K.Tables VI ...

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, 57

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s away in the

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of Eridanus. The star is visible to the unaided eye under very dark skies. It is slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, and at 1.75 billion years old, it is also younger. An extrasolar planet was discovered orbiting this star in 2003.

Planetary system

In 2003,

Michel Mayor Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (; born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory ...

's team announced the discovery of a new planet,

HD 10647 b HD 10647 b, also catalogued as q1 Eridani b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 57 light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus (the River). The planet is a mid-Jovian that orbits 103% farther from the star than Earth to the Sun. It take ...

, in Paris at the XIX IAP Colloquium ''Extrasolar Planets: Today & Tomorrow''

The

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team initially did not detect the planet in 2004, though a solution was made by 2006. The

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data was finally published in 2013. The

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infrared Infrared (IR), sometimes called infrared light, is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than those of visible light. It is therefore invisible to the human eye. IR is generally understood to encompass wavelengths from around ...

space

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detected an excess of infrared radiation from the star, indicating a possible

circumstellar disk A circumstellar disc (or circumstellar disk) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids, or collision fragments in orbit around a star. Around the youngest stars, they are the rese ...

. Out of the 300 nearest Sun-like stars, the disk has the highest fractional

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out of all of them. It is unusually bright, but not unusually massive; the lower bound of the mass is 8 times that of the Earth. The inclination of the disk is relatively high, and the disk is asymmetrical, being more extended in the northeast direction than the southwest. It extends from 34

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s (AU) at the inner edge to 134 AU at the outer edge. The inner edge is sharp, suggesting the existence of a planet that carved out the edge. HD 10647 b, with a semimajor axis of about 2 AU, is too far to be responsible. However, other potential planets may be responsible for this feature. There is some evidence for an additional, warm asteroid belt-like component further in, at 3 to 10 AU away from the star.

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