CHA J11070768-7626326 (CHA 1107-7626 for short), a young isolated exoplanet is 5-10 times higher than the mass of Jupiter, experiences a record growth, which is dismantled in 6 million tons of gas and dust for several months, in accordance with new observations, in accordance with new observations.
The artist’s impression is about freely floating from Exoplanet Cha 1107-7626. The image is provided: ESO / L. Calçada / M. KornMesser.
CHA 1107-7626 is located in about 620 light years in the constellation Chamaleon.
This freely floating exoplanet is still formed and fed by the district disk of gas and dust.
This material constantly falls on the planet, a process known as accretion.
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“People can think about planets as quiet and stable worlds, but with this discovery we see that the objects of the planetary masses, freely floating in space, can be exciting seats,” said Dr. Victor Almodros-Abad, an astronomical observatory of Palermo at the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF).
“We caught this newborn fraudulent planet as part of an act of absorption at a fierce pace,” said Professor University John Hopkins Ray Jayardhan.
“Monitoring his behavior over the past few months, with the two most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, we captured a rare look at the children's phase of isolated objects, not much more difficult than Jupiter.”
“Their infancy seems much more violent than we understood.”
“This is the strongest accremental episode ever recorded for the object of the planetary mass,” added Dr. Alendros-Abad.
The detection was made with the X-Shooter spectrograph on the very large telescope ESO (VLT), located in the Ottakam Chili desert.
Astronomers also used the data from the NASA/ESA/CSA space telescope James Webb and the Sinfoni spectrograph on VLT.
“The origin of fraudulent planets remains an open question: their objects with the lowest mass formed as stars, or giant planets thrown from their birth systems?” Dr. Alex Sholts, an astronomer from the University of St. Andrews, said.
The results show that at least some fraudulent planets can share a similar path of formation for stars, since similar bursts of accretion were found in young stars.
“This discovery opens the line between the stars and planets and gives us a brief overview of the earliest periods of the formation of scammers,” said Dr. Belinda Damian, an astronomer from the University of Saint Endrew.
Comparing the light emitted before and during the explosion, the astronomers collected tips about the nature of the accretion process.
It is noteworthy that magnetic activity, in the visible one, played a role in stimulating the dramatic incision of the mass, which was previously observed only in the stars.
This suggests that even objects with a low mass can have strong magnetic fields that can feed such accretion events.
The team also found that the disk chemistry around the planet has changed during an accrementary episode, while water vapor is found during it, but not earlier.
This phenomenon was noticed in the stars, but never on the planet.
“We are amazed at how infancy of free planetary objects resembles such stars as The Sun,” said Professor Jayardhan.
“Our new conclusions emphasize this similarity and implies that some objects comparable to giant planets form how the stars do it from reducing clouds of gas and dust accompanied by their own discs, and they pass the growth episodes like newborn stars.”
Team paper was published today in Astrophysical magazine lettersField
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Victor Almendros-Abad and othersField 2025. Detection of an accretion explosion in a freely floating object of the planetary mass. Apjl 992, l2; DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/AE09A8
