Radial Velocity Comparison Tables
Planet Mass | Distance AU |
Radial velocity (vradial) | Notice |
---|---|---|---|
Jupiter | 1 | 28.4 m/s | |
Jupiter | 5 | 12.7 m/s | |
Neptune | 0.1 | 4.8 m/s | |
Neptune | 1 | 1.5 m/s | |
Super-Earth (5 M⊕) | 0.1 | 1.4 m/s | |
Alpha Centauri Bb (1.13 ± 0.09 M⊕) | 0.04 | 0.51 m/s | Most precise vradial measurements ever recorded. ESO's HARPS spectrograph was used. |
Super-Earth (5 M⊕) | 1 | 0.45 m/s | |
Earth | 1 | 0.09 m/s |
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