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TOI 1338
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TOI-1338 is a binary star system located in the constellation Pictor, about 1,320 light-years from Earth. It is orbited by two known circumbinary planets, TOI-1338 b, discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and BEBOP-1c, discovered by the Binaries Escorted By Orbiting Planets project.

Wikidata facts

Constellation
Pictor
Distance from Earth
451.814
Radius
3.1
Variable-star type
eclipsing binary star
Image
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catalog code
TYC 8533-950-1
epoch
J2000.0
effective temperature
5723
apparent magnitude
11.872519
radial velocity
47.23
parallax
2.504
declination component of proper motion
34.513
right ascension component of proper motion
-12.057
age estimated by a dating method
4.4
Commons category
TOI 1338
right ascension
92.13319800184
declination
-59.54113380641998
metallicity
-0.202
surface gravity
4070
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  • Discovery and nomenclature
  • Stellar binary
  • Planetary system
  • See also
  • References
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TOI-1338 is a binary star system located in the constellation Pictor, about 1,320 light-years from Earth. It is orbited by two known circumbinary planets, TOI-1338 b, discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and BEBOP-1c, discovered by the Binaries Escorted By Orbiting Planets project.

==Discovery and nomenclature== The circumbinary planet TOI-1338 b was found in July 2019 by Wolf Cukier, a 17-year-old high school student who joined the Goddard Space Flight Center as a summer intern. The acronym TOI stands for "TESS Objects of Interest." Cukier studied data provided by volunteers of the Planet Hunters citizen science project, looking through data that had been flagged as an eclipsing binary. Cukier and six of the Planet Hunter volunteers are co-authors of the publication regarding the planet.

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