A young massive planet in a star–disk system

J. Setiawan (), Th. Henning, R. Launhardt (), A. Müller, P. Weise and M. Kürster
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J. Setiawan: Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, D-69117, Germany
Th. Henning: Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, D-69117, Germany
R. Launhardt: Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, D-69117, Germany
A. Müller: Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, D-69117, Germany
P. Weise: Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, D-69117, Germany
M. Kürster: Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, D-69117, Germany

Nature, 2008, vol. 451, issue 7174, 38-41

Abstract: A young exoplanet at last The number of known extrasolar planets is well into three figures, but until now, none has been what you might call 'young'. Now a massive young planet, six times the mass of Jupiter, has been detected in the dust disk around the nearby star TW Hydrae (TW Hya). At just 8–10 million years old, TW Hya had already been identified as a likely location for developing planets, and the building blocks for a planetary system are present in its circumstellar disk. The new observation is significant as it puts a direct constraint on the timescale of extrasolar planet formation.

Date: 2008
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