Exoplanetary Scratchpad |
One of three systems discovered by Super WASP containing a transiting planet so close to its star that it is evaporating. A dense very hot jupiter, the densest known Jupiter mass planet at the time of its discovery (Mass is 63% more than Jupiter, Radius is 17% more). Found to orbit in the same manner as its star's rotation, while 6 out of 27 planets analyzed by the WASP team were found to orbit backwards around its star in 2010. Has a candidate planet detected by the Transit Timing Variation method.
WASP-5 System Web Pages[]
WASP-5 System In the News[]
Discovered (Oct 2007)[]
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/31/spaceexploration.uknews
- http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071108-hot-planets.html
- http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1685
Not One of six Retrograde Exoplanets (2010)[]
- http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58275/title/Backward_planets_may_have_flipped_into_place
- http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2220#description
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/some-planets-play-a-mean-game-of.html
- http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/90752569.html
- http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1016/
Transit Timing Variation Candidate Not as Convincing as Kepler-19 (2012)[]
- See Kepler-19 System for more articles and related systems