WASP-5

WASP -5 is an approximately 300 parsecs ( 1000 light years) distant star that is orbited by an exoplanet. The located in the constellation Phoenix star belongs to the spectral class about G4 V and has an apparent magnitude of 12.3 mag. With a surface temperature of about 5700 Kelvin, the star of the sun is similar, also the age ( 3-4 billion years) is in the range of age of the sun.

Planetary companion

The exoplanet with the systematic name WASP -5 b was discovered using the transit method within the SuperWASP project by observations in the years 2006 and 2007 ( Anderson et al., 2008). It has an orbital period of 1.63 days, its mass corresponds to 1.6 times Jupiter's mass and its radius 1.2 Jupiter radii. The semi-major axis of the orbit measures about 0.027 astronomical units.

Schematic Size comparison between Jupiter and WASP -5 b

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  • Http://www.superwasp.org/wasp_planets.htm
  • Http://exoplanet.eu/star.php?st=WASP-5
  • Commons: WASP -5 b - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Individual star fifth size and darker
  • Phoenix ( constellation )
  • Star with exoplanet
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