Astrolábos
Sign in to saveAlso known as WASP-43 b, WASP-43b, TOI-656.01, TIC 36734222b
WASP-43b, formally named Astrolábos, is a transiting planet in orbit around the young, active, and low-mass star WASP-43 in the constellation Sextans. The planet is a hot Jupiter with a mass twice that of Jupiter, but with a roughly equal radius. WASP-43b was flagged as a candidate by the SuperWASP program, before they conducted follow-ups using instruments at La Silla Observatory in Chile, which confirmed its existence and provided orbital and physical characteristics. The planet's discovery was published on April 14, 2011.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 284 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 154.9084° · Dec -9.8063°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hot Jupiter
- Named after
- astrolabe
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Parent body
- Gnomon
- Radius
- 1.006
- Mass
- 2.052
- Orbital period
- 0.81347753
- Image
- Hot Jupiter Exoplanet WASP-43b.png
Show 16 more facts
- Commons category
- WASP-43 b
- catalog code
- TIC 36734222b
- discovery method
- transit method
- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-11-00
- right ascension
- 154.90837060183665
- declination
- -9.80627863999139
- epoch
- J2000.0
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.01526
- argument of periapsis
- 328
- orbital inclination
- 82.11
- orbital eccentricity
- 0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -42.044
- declination component of proper motion
- -38.192
- albedo
- 0.18
- parallax
- 11.4991
- M sin i
- 2.034
via Wikidata · CC0
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Observational history
- Host star
- Characteristics
- Atmosphere
- External links
- References
WASP-43b, formally named Astrolábos, is a transiting planet in orbit around the young, active, and low-mass star WASP-43 in the constellation Sextans. The planet is a hot Jupiter with a mass twice that of Jupiter, but with a roughly equal radius. WASP-43b was flagged as a candidate by the SuperWASP program, before they conducted follow-ups using instruments at La Silla Observatory in Chile, which confirmed its existence and provided orbital and physical characteristics. The planet's discovery was published on April 14, 2011.
WASP-43b has an orbital period of approximately 0.8 days (19.2 hours), which at the time of discovery was the third-shortest known, surpassed only by WASP-19b and WASP-47e. At the time of its discovery, the size of WASP-43b's orbit was the smallest known for a hot Jupiter, probably due to its host star's low mass.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Astrolábos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.