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than the Sun. Also, it is thought to have formed well inside the system's "snow line" at 3.2 AU. However, various models of the system's formation have since converged that the planet attracted large amounts of volatiles before its star had cleared out the ice, and that it now has a core of only six
380:, a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning name was Dulcinea for this planet. The winning name was submitted by the Planetario de Pamplona, 647:; C. Lovis; M. Bazot; W. Benz; J.-L. Bertaux; G. Lo Curto; X. Delfosse; C. Mordasini; D. Naef; J.-P. Sivan & S. Vauclair (2004). "A 14 Earth-masses exoplanet around μ Arae". 541:
Pepe, F.; Correia, A. C. M.; Mayor, M.; Tamuz, O.; et al. (2007). "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. VIII. μ Arae, a system with four planets".
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None of the four planets orbiting Mu Arae are directly visible from Earth using currently available tools. All four were found using the
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and gas that the planet would behave more like Neptune. Indeed, it is now understood that planets this massive are rarely rocky.
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The planet's discovery was announced on August 25, 2004. At the time, its minimum mass was reported at just 14 times that of
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If an eroded gas giant, the star would have boiled the planet from a larger protoplanet, of 20 Earth masses up to half
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in mass (Lammer), or if it could have developed from a gas giant, losing most of its mass on the way (Baraffe).
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I. Baraffe; Y. Alibert; G. Chabrier; W. Benz (2005). "Birth and fate of hot-Neptune planets".
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The planet must be hot because of its proximity to its star. The discoverers chose for it an
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NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide Contest to Name Exoplanets and their Host Stars
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of 0.35, lighter than albedos chosen to calculate the temperatures of
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Extrasolar planet orbiting Mu Arae in the constellation of Ara
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atmosphere. If so the surface temperature would be about
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was the love interest of the lead character of the novel
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Earth masses. Its core is likely enveloped in so much
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Mu Arae c is too far from its star to be subject to
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Final Results of NameExoWorlds Public Vote Released
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(2007). 963:Geophysical Research Abstracts 1: 1831:Exoplanets discovered in 2004 509:European Southern Observatory 354:European Southern Observatory 1846:Exoplanets with proper names 778:"NameExoWorlds The Process" 679:10.1051/0004-6361:200400076 175:Argument of periastron 1867: 932:10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/17 874:10.1051/0004-6361:20054040 844:Astronomy and Astrophysics 744:10.1051/0004-6361:20066194 714:Astronomy and Astrophysics 649:Astronomy and Astrophysics 575:10.1051/0004-6361:20066194 544:Astronomy and Astrophysics 505:"Fourteen Times the Earth" 1796: 1537: 1102: 901:The Astrophysical Journal 700:F. Pepe; A.C.M. Correia; 604:Oxford English Dictionary 206: 143:Orbital period (sidereal) 1107:Ara in Chinese astronomy 635:N.C. Santos; F. Bouchy; 1465:2MASS J18082002−5104378 866:2006A&A...450.1221B 736:2007A&A...462..769P 671:2004A&A...426L..19S 609:Oxford University Press 567:2007A&A...462..769P 163:Time of periastron 93:Orbital characteristics 767:. IAU.org. 9 July 2014 428:coronal mass ejections 1470:CXOU J164710.2−455216 1112:List of stars in Ara 1096:Constellation of Ara 358:La Silla Observatory 321:' to be discovered. 317:. It was the first ' 60:La Silla Observatory 20:Mu Arae c / Dulcinea 1826:Ara (constellation) 923:2017ApJ...834...17C 607:(Online ed.). 458:Rayleigh scattering 70:Discovery date 55:Discovery site 21: 1009:The Mu Arae System 412:terrestrial planet 31:Discovered by 1810: 1809: 1792: 1791: 1748: 1747: 1740:Water Lily Nebula 1693: 1692: 1599: 1598: 1533: 1532: 1062: 1061: 615:(Subscription or 511:. 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Index

Discovered by
Santos
Bouchy
Mayor
Pepe
Discovery site
La Silla Observatory
Chile
Detection method
HARPS
Orbital characteristics
Apastron
Periastron
Semi-major axis
Eccentricity
Orbital period (sidereal)
d
y
Time of periastron
Argument of periastron
Semi-amplitude
Mu Arae
/dʌlˈsɪniə/
/dʌlsɪˈnə/
extrasolar planet
star
Mu Arae
constellation
Ara
hot Neptune

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