Astronomy:WASP-166
WASP-166, also named Filetdor, is an F-type main-sequence star 373 light-years (114 parsecs) away in the constellation Hydra. With an apparent magnitude of 9.4, it is too faint to be visible to the naked eye. It hosts one known exoplanet.
Nomenclature
The designation WASP-166 comes from the Wide Angle Search for Planets.
This was one of the 20 systems selected to be named in the third NameExoWorlds campaign, beginning in August 2022. The approved names, proposed by a team from Spain, were announced in June 2023. The star is named Filetdor and its planet is named Catalineta, after characters from a Mallorcan folktale about a golden sea serpent, Na Filet d'Or.[1]
Planetary system
The planet WASP-166b, later named Catalineta, is a hot, low-density super-Neptune, discovered in 2018 using the transit method as part of the Wide Angle Search for Planets. It is a rare example of a planet within the Neptune desert; few Neptune-mass planets are found so close to their stars.[2]
The orbit of WASP-166b is aligned with its host star's equator, differing from other similar hot Neptunes (such as HAT-P-11b, WASP-107b, and GJ 436 b) which have misaligned orbits.[2] The aligned orbit suggests that it is unlikely to have undergone high-eccentricity migration.[3]
While initial transmission spectroscopy observations of WASP-166b with the HARPS spectrograph failed to detect any molecules in the planet's atmosphere,[4] follow-up studies of the same dataset[5] and of ESPRESSO data have detected sodium in the atmosphere.[6] ESPRESSO has also been used to place constraints on the possible presence of water vapor and clouds.[7]
| Companion (in order from star) |
Mass | Semimajor axis (AU) |
Orbital period (days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b / Catalineta | 0.101±0.005 MJ | 0.0641±0.0011 | 5.443540(4) | <0.07 | 88.0±0.7° | 0.63±0.03 RJ |
See also
References
- ↑ "2022 Approved Names". IAU. https://nameexoworlds.iau.org/2022approved-names.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hellier, Coel et al. (September 2019). "WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 488 (3): 3067–3075. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1903. Bibcode: 2019MNRAS.488.3067H.
- ↑ Bourrier, V. et al. (January 2023). "DREAM: I. Orbital architecture orrery". Astronomy & Astrophysics 669: A63. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202245004. Bibcode: 2023A&A...669A..63B.
- ↑ Žák, Jiří et al. (September 2019). "High-resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of Four Hot Inflated Gas Giant Exoplanets". The Astronomical Journal 158 (3): 120. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab32ec. Bibcode: 2019AJ....158..120Z.
- ↑ Seidel, J. V. et al. (September 2020). "Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS): V. Detection of sodium on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-166b". Astronomy & Astrophysics 641: L7. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202038497. Bibcode: 2020A&A...641L...7S.
- ↑ Seidel, J. V. et al. (June 2022). "The hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO II: confirmation of atmospheric sodium". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 513 (1): L15–L19. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slac027. Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.513L..15S.
- ↑ Lafarga, M. et al. (May 2023). "The hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO - III. A blue-shifted tentative water signal constrains the presence of clouds". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 521 (1): 1233–1252. doi:10.1093/mnras/stad480. Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.521.1233L.
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- Bryant, Edward M. et al. (June 2020). "Simultaneous TESS and NGTS transit observations of WASP-166 b". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494 (4): 5872–5881. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa1075. Bibcode: 2020MNRAS.494.5872B.
- Doyle, L. et al. (October 2022). "The Hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO - I. Refining the planetary architecture and stellar variability". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 516 (1): 298–315. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac2178. Bibcode: 2022MNRAS.516..298D.
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