Astronomy:WASP-16b
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 Size comparison of WASP-16b with Jupiter. | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Lister et al. |
| Discovery date | August 3, 2009 |
| Transit and Radial velocity | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.0421+0.001−0.0018 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0 |
| Orbital period | 3.1186009+1.46e-5−1.31e-5 d |
| Inclination | 85.22+0.27−0.43 |
| Star | WASP-16 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mass | 0.855 ± 0.059 |♃|J}}}}}} |
WASP-16b is an extrasolar planet that travels around its star, WASP-16, every 3.12 days. Likely a hot Jupiter. Its mass is near .855 of Jupiter, the radius is 1.008 of Jupiter. It was discovered in 2009 by a team led by T.A. Lister as part of the Wide Angle Search for Planets project.[1]
Characteriscics
In 2012, it was found from the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect that WASP-16b orbits its slow-rotating and likely old parent star WASP-16 in a prograde direction, with the star's rotational axis inclined to the planetary orbit by −4.2°+11.0°
−13.9°.[2]
References
- ↑ Lister, Timothy A (3 August 2009). "WASP-16b: A new Jupiter-like planet transiting a southern solar analog". The Astrophysical Journal 709 (1): 159–167. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/709/1/159. Bibcode: 2010ApJ...709..159A.
- ↑ Brown, D. J. A.; Cameron, A. Collier; Anderson, D. R.; Enoch, B.; Hellier, C.; Maxted, P. F. L.; Miller, G. R. M.; Pollacco, D. et al. (2012). "Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect Measurements for WASP-16, WASP-25 and WASP-31". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 423 (2): 1503–1520. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20973.x. Bibcode: 2012MNRAS.423.1503B.
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