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Subject: Re: CD-35 2722 B treated as planet 23rd February 2011, 5:11 am
Agreed. That's definitely pushing it. I'm curious what the rationale is. The mas is given as 31 ± 8 MJ, so the lower edge with in the error margin given is 23 MJ. Still...
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Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
Subject: Re: CD-35 2722 B treated as planet 23rd February 2011, 1:47 pm
Constraint in the EPE readme is 20 Jupiter masses to 2 sigma, so this object does appear to meet that criterion.
Mass ratio of the system perhaps suggests the brown dwarf interpretation is a better one in this case though.