Helium-rich gas giant
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While traveling to WP7 i found two or three systems with HR gas giants. All of them were systems with B class main star. I consider myself lucky since before DW and after 125 000ly distance covered i had only two systems with HR - a B star and a Neutron star.
I will post the details of mine once I've sold the data - could still be sniped on this one, less than 1000k from the bubble and I want my first discovery tags
. But still in short range exploration mode so it is unlikely to be today.
I think they are very rare. I was very lucky the other day and I found 4 in one system. The only ones Ive ever seen in my career as an explorer. Good find!
I will post the details of mine once I've sold the data - could still be sniped on this one, less than 1000k from the bubble and I want my first discovery tags
You can black out the name. I'm just interested in the physical properties, age, etc. Maybe the spectral class from the gal map.
6 G Orionis (1 Helium-rich Gas Giant):
A3 V, 384 Million Years, 2.7578 Solar Masses, 1.9322 Solar Radii, 10823 K
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HIP 24960 (7 Helium-rich Gas Giants):
G8 III, 976 Million Years, 1.0352 Solar Masses, 11.2397 Solar Radii, 4526 K
A3 V, 384 Million Years, 2.7578 Solar Masses, 1.9322 Solar Radii, 10823 K
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HIP 24960 (7 Helium-rich Gas Giants):
G8 III, 976 Million Years, 1.0352 Solar Masses, 11.2397 Solar Radii, 4526 K
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You can black out the name. I'm just interested in the physical properties, age, etc. Maybe the spectral class from the gal map.
Ah, ok. It's a type M
Only the second planet says it's helium rich.
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HIP 30019 (3 Helium-rich Gas Giants, binary star):
Component A (no planets):
B9 III, 160 Million Years, 15.7500 Solar Masses, 5.0732 Solar Radii, 9396 K
Component B (all planets in the system orbit this one - well, actually 7 T-Tauri stars orbit this one, 2 of them have a HMC as 'binary' pair & 3 of them have a Helium-rich Gas Giant as 'moon'):
B0 VZ, 160 Million Years, 6.4144 Solar Masses, 2.9562 Solar Radii, 18729 K
Component A (no planets):
B9 III, 160 Million Years, 15.7500 Solar Masses, 5.0732 Solar Radii, 9396 K
Component B (all planets in the system orbit this one - well, actually 7 T-Tauri stars orbit this one, 2 of them have a HMC as 'binary' pair & 3 of them have a Helium-rich Gas Giant as 'moon'):
B0 VZ, 160 Million Years, 6.4144 Solar Masses, 2.9562 Solar Radii, 18729 K
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TYPE____AGE____MASS__RADIUS_TEMP
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F9 VAB __728____1.1523__1.14____6057
G3 VAB__608____1.016___1.0938__5696
K8 VA___608____0.5898__0.7838__4552
F1 VI____927____1.2227__1.1242__7222
G3 VAB__678____1.0977__1.1447__5757
The systems above contain 28 GG/He's in total, some of the systems are massive, as has been mentioned.
The common thread for the ones I've found is that they're in young systems, so might be related to star forming regions.
I did also notice that GG/He's also seem to be in clumps, i.e. if you find one system with one or more GG/He's the chances are good that another system within 2-4 short jumps also has one.
There's a good spot about 700-1000ly's below the bubble in the Synuefe region where I've found all of mine so far.
CMDR Andrew Reid
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Excellent, so they are all extremely young population 1 stars, as they should be. The stars would also be helium rich, and metallic. I really wish they had info about the metallicity and Fe/H ratios. That would be really helpful when looking for earthlikes, terraformables, or metal rich planets.
OMG I found a system with 7 of the buggers I didn't realize they were that rare I hope nobody claims it for the next 2 months or so cause I'm on a journey to beagle point 2 of them were the 2nd and 4th planet respectively and at the very edge of the system there was a gas giant with 5 gas giants orbiting it as moons. That gas giant was helium rich and so were 4 of the 5 orbiting gas giants.
I didn't realize they were that rare I hope nobody claims it for the next 2 months or so cause I'm on a journey to beagle point 2 of them were the 2nd and 4th planet respectively and at the very edge of the system there was a gas giant with 5 gas giants orbiting it as moons. That gas giant was helium rich and so were 4 of the 5 orbiting gas giants.
There not frequent but not super rare,...
As the graphics are not much different from other Giants, you can actually easily spot them by sound... ( in this case, the lack of sound)
... Like many others btw,...
check this thread
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ds-and-how-to-know-everything-from-System-Map
As the graphics are not much different from other Giants, you can actually easily spot them by sound... ( in this case, the lack of sound)
... Like many others btw,...
check this thread
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ds-and-how-to-know-everything-from-System-Map
True for the System Map, but Helium-rich Gas Giants are quite easily identified by their own specific holo-icon. Identifying specific types of planets (specifically WW, AW and ELW) via holo-icons has actually gotten quite a lot easier with the changes made to them in 2.3.
I'm currently updating my own holo-icon cheat-sheet with the new icons and payout-values and will post it as soon as I'm back in the bubble and have analysed the payouts per body-type.
Sometime in 3307 then
(in game or not...)
Could be very true for CMDR Redfox CMDR Redfoxxx was dusted off in the bubble and started heading out a week ago, explicitly for this task. *Loving* the long range mod on the DSS, for which I fortunately had or quickly found some materials do do a few lucky rolls.
On my way to Jaques and found a system with 3 Helium rich gas giants, as well as 2 gas giants with water based life. I couldn't remember if I had found a Helium rich before, so I searched the forum and found this thread. Seems like I had a lucky day today!
This system I found has 22 of the buggers: https://coloniagazette.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/cartography-report-08-light-headed/
HE/BE system
HE/BE system
Impressive! My best is a mere 8.
As I understand the stellar forge proc-gen planet generator, the hydrogen:helium ratio for a star system is fairly constant. So if the first gas giant in a system is a helium giant, then it's highly likely that all or most of the other gas giants in the system will also be helium giants. So finding a whole bunch of them in one system should not be a surprise. It's finding a helium-rich-with-gas-giants star system in the first place that's the tricky part.