The bilateral stars system is a pair of stars binding and a joint position of the mass. In 2004, David Ram of Canterbury University in New Zealand discovered a mysterious repetition signal while monitoring the movement of a pair of stars in a system called Nu Octtis. Noting that a huge planet, the size of Jupiter, may be present in this system. In a new study, a small group of astronomers used improved measurement devices to confirm the existence of the planet and explain how the system can remain stable.
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According to TicketNew data from Harps Spectrograph at the Southern European Observatory, the main star in the system is a giant. The smaller star, the white dwarf, and the planet spin both the biggest star. But it is strange to wander around the star Two opposite directions. These reflected tracks reduce the risk of gravitational disorder and make the system stable.
The planet’s signal has been consistent for more than 20 years, indicating that it does not cause stars. According to Hui Li, the co -author of the study, researchers are completely sure of the existence of the planet. This highlights the extent that the long -term stability in the data is the presence of this strange planet with a narrow but stable path through the binary system.
The origin of the planet
There are two possibilities: the planet either used both stars at one time, but then turned a radical path when one of the two stars became a white dwarf, or was formed from the mass that the star brought out while turning into a white dwarf. Future notes and sporting modeling may be much more able to determine which of these scenarios are likely to have happened, but both are somewhat new.
