YSES 1


YSES 1, also known as TYC 8998-760-1, is a pre-main-sequence star located 310 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Musca, with a mass times the Sun.

Planetary system

There are two giant bodies orbiting the star. In 2020, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope photographed the two bodies using its SPHERE instrument, producing the first direct image of multiple bodies orbiting a Sun-like star.

YSES 1 b

YSES 1 b is the inner companion, orbiting at from the host star, or slightly more than 5 times the Neptune-Sun distance. Its mass has been estimated to be, though another estimate give. This mass is higher than the generally-used deuterium burning limit of, which is often used to separate planets from brown dwarfs. In July 2021, astronomers reported the detection, for the first time, of an isotope in the atmosphere of an exoplanet; more specifically, the isotope Carbon-13 was found in the atmosphere. This was later confirmed with VLT/CRIRES+. This spectrum showed that the atmosphere is dominated by water vapor and carbon monoxide. The researchers also detect hydrogen fluoride in the atmosphere. The object is an L-dwarf with a spectral type of L0. Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope detected silicate emission from YSES 1b, indicating the presence of a circumplanetary disk. The emission was attributed to submicron olivine dust grains. These very small and hot grains might have formed from collisions of satellites forming inside the circumplanetary disk. Observations with VLT MUSE revealed emission by hydrogen, calcium and helium, coming from YSES 1b. These lines are attributed to accretion of material from the circumplanetary disk to the surface of the planet. It is the first object in this mass range with this full combination of lines. The planet accretes between 1.11 x 10-9±0.19 /yr and 1.45 x 10-9±0.19 /yr.

YSES 1 c

YSES 1 c is a body with a mass of, and orbits at, or slightly more than 11 times the Neptune-Sun distance. Atmospheric water vapor and carbon monoxide was detected with VLT/CRIRES+. The object is an L-dwarf with a spectral type of L7.5. Additionally JWST spectra with NIRSpec and MIRI were published. The spectrum of TYC 8998-760-1 c does show direct detection of silicate clouds.