HR 2562 b

HR 2562 b is a brown dwarf or gas giant exoplanet. It is a substellar companion of the debris disk host star HR 2562. HR 2562 is a sixth-magnitude F-type main-sequence star located 34.007 ± away. HR 2562 is about 37% more massive than the Sun.

Initially categorised as brown dwarf, HR 2562 b's exact mass is unknown, and is thought to be 29 ± 15 Jupiter masses, and its luminosity is about $$\frac{1}{50 000}$$ solar luminosity. Its spectral type is L7±3. It was first observed in 2016 using the Gemini Planet Imager.

According to NASA Exoplanet Archive, with a mass of nearly, it is listed as the most massive exoplanet.

HR 2562 b resides interior to the parent star's debris disk, and its orbit is coplanar to it. The disk is inclined 78.0° from the plane of the sky to the line of sight, and ranges from 38 ± 20 au to 187 ± 20 au away from the central star.

Host star
The host star of HR 2562 b is HR 2562, a F-type star located 33.63 pc from the Earth in the constellation Pictor. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, with an apparent magntiude of 6.11. The mass of HR 2562 is 1.3, and its age is between 300 and 900 million years.