Minimum mass
In astronomy, minimum mass is the lower-bound calculated mass of objects like planets, stars, nebulae,[1] and black holes.
Minimum mass is used a lot for extrasolar planets discovered by the radial velocity method. It is found using the binary mass function.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Arbutina, B. (2007-06-01). "The minimum mass ratio of W UMa-type binary systems". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 377 (4): 1635–1637. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11723.x. ISSN 0035-8711.
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