Astronomy:WASP-14b
 Size comparison of WASP-14b with Jupiter. | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Cameron et al. (SuperWASP) |
| Discovery site | SAAO |
| Discovery date | April 1, 2008 |
| Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.037+0.001−0.002 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.095+0.004−0.007 |
| Orbital period | 2.243756+5E-6−1E-6 d |
| Inclination | 84.79+0.52−0.67 |
| 254.9+0.92−1.72 | |
| Star | WASP-14 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mean radius | 1.259+0.08−0.058 |♃|J}}}}}} |
| Mass | 7.725+0.43−0.67 |♃|J}}}}}} |
| Mean density | 5,133 kg/m3 (8,652 lb/cu yd) |
| 126.2 m/s2 (414 ft/s2) 12.87 g | |
| Physics | 2800 |
WASP-14b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008 by SuperWASP using the transit method. Follow-up radial velocity measurements showed that the mass of WASP-14b is almost eight times larger than that of Jupiter. The radius found by the transit observations show that it has a radius 25% larger than Jupiter. This makes WASP-14b one of the densest exoplanets known.[1] Its radius best fits the model of Jonathan Fortney.[2]
Orbit
First calculation of WASP-14b's Rossiter–McLaughlin effect and so spin-orbit angle was −14 ± 17 degrees.[3] It is too eccentric for its age and so is possibly pulled into its orbit by another planet.[1] The study in 2012 has updated spin-orbit angle to 33.1±7.4°.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joshi, Y. C. et al. (2008). "WASP-14b: A 7.7 Mjup transiting exoplanet in an eccentric orbit". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 392 (4): 1532–1538. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14178.x. Bibcode: 2009MNRAS.392.1532J. http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/392/4/1532.full.
- ↑ Fortney; Marley, M. S.; Barnes, J. W. (2007). "Planetary Radii across Five Orders of Magnitude in Mass and Stellar Insolation: Application to Transits". The Astrophysical Journal 659 (2): 1661–1672. doi:10.1086/512120. Bibcode: 2007ApJ...659.1661F. http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0004-637X/659/2/1661/70736.html.
- ↑ Winn, Joshua N. (2008). "Measuring accurate transit parameters". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 4: 99–109. doi:10.1017/S174392130802629X. Bibcode: 2009IAUS..253...99W.
- ↑ Albrecht, Simon; Winn, Joshua N.; Johnson, John A.; Howard, Andrew W.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Butler, R. Paul; Arriagada, Pamela; Crane, Jeffrey D. et al. (2012), "Obliquities of Hot Jupiter Host Stars: Evidence for Tidal Interactions and Primordial Misalignments", The Astrophysical Journal 757 (1): 18, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/757/1/18, Bibcode: 2012ApJ...757...18A
External links
Coordinates: 
14h 33m 06s, +21° 53′ 41″
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