Q4052854
Sign in to saveWASP-49 is a binary star system about away in the constellation Lepus. The two stars are separated by 443 AU. The primary is a G-type main-sequence star, with a surface temperature of . WASP-49 is depleted of heavy elements relative to the Sun. It has a metallicity Fe/H index of –0.23, meaning it has 59% the iron level of the Sun.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- eclipsing binary star
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Distance from Earth
- 194.553
- Radius
- 1.198
- Mass
- 0.399
- Orbital period
- 2.7817387
- Variable-star type
- eclipsing binary star
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- catalog code
- TYC 5936-2086-1
- effective temperature
- 5597
- radial velocity
- 41.25
- apparent magnitude
- 11.289128
- parallax
- 5.1315
- epoch
- J2000.0
- metallicity
- -0.07
- surface gravity
- 23000
- luminosity
- 0.88431185
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 54.671
- declination component of proper motion
- -19.055
- age estimated by a dating method
- 11.9
- right ascension
- 91.08947322642
- declination
- -16.96530798463
- spectral class
- G5V
- orbital inclination
- 84.48
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.03873
- argument of periapsis
- 90
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WASP-49 is a binary star system about away in the constellation Lepus. The two stars are separated by 443 AU. The primary is a G-type main-sequence star, with a surface temperature of . WASP-49 is depleted of heavy elements relative to the Sun. It has a metallicity Fe/H index of –0.23, meaning it has 59% the iron level of the Sun.
==Planetary system== In 2012, one exoplanet, designated WASP-49b, was discovered around the primary star by a team led by Monika Lendl. This is a hot Jupiter with an equilibrium temperature of .
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