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Table 2.

Original and future barycentric orbits of K2 at 250 au from the Sun, that is, before entering and after leaving the planetary zone, respectively.

Solution A1 Solution A0
Original orbit Future orbit Original orbit Future orbit
Perihelion distance [au] 1.79551272 ± 0.00005475 1.79335881 ± 0.00005584 1.79546949 ± 0.00006519 1.79331479 ± 0.00006646
Eccentricity 0.99991296 ± 0.00001423 0.99795491 ± 0.00001431 0.99990416 ± 0.00001821 0.99794611 ± 0.00001833
Inverse of the semimajor axis 48.48 ± 7.93 1140.4 ± 8.0 53.38 ± 10.15 1145.3 ± 10.3
Time of perihelion passage [TT] 2022 12 18.855081 ± 0.029861 2022 12 19.872785 ± 0.030085 2022 12 18.862555 ± 0.041019 2022 12 19.880427 ± 0.041289
Inclination 87.573197 ± 0.000023 87.789103 ± 0.000017 87.573129 ± 0.000045 87.789042 ± 0.000042
Argument of perihelion 236.214199 ± 0.001702 236.051977 ± 0.001691 236.215269 ± 0.002075 236.053032 ± 0.002063
Longitude of the ascending node 88.086028 ± 0.000236 88.254521 ± 0.000240 88.086450 ± 0.000460 88.254950 ± 0.000464
Epoch of osculation [TT] 1722 10 20 2336 07 13 1722 10 20 2336 08 22

Notes. Inverse semimajor axis values are in units of 10−6 au−1, and angular orbital elements are given in degrees.

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