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WASP-16
Sign in to saveAlso known as TYC 6147-229-1, UCAC2 23880704, DTARPS-S 58, TIC 46096489, 2MASS J14184392-2016317, RAVE J141843.9-201632, TOI-818
WASP-16 is a magnitude 11 yellow dwarf main sequence star, with characteristics similar to the Sun, located 628 light-years away in the Virgo constellation.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Spectral type
- G3V
- Distance
- 628 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.0000036691983156256214
- Coordinates
- RA 214.6830° · Dec -20.2755°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- solar-type star
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Child body
- WASP-16b
- Distance from Earth
- 195.198
- Diameter
- 1530000
- Radius
- 0.946
- Mass
- 1.022
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- metallicity
- 0.116
- catalog code
- TIC 46096489
- spectral class
- G3V
- effective temperature
- 5550
- parallax
- 5.152
- radial velocity
- -3.75
- apparent magnitude
- 11.121181
- surface gravity
- 21730
- epoch
- J2000.0
- luminosity
- 1.0234131
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.088
- declination component of proper motion
- 17.35
- right ascension
- 214.68301042246
- declination
- -20.27551211838
- age estimated by a dating method
- 2.3
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Planetary system
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WASP-16 is a magnitude 11 yellow dwarf main sequence star, with characteristics similar to the Sun, located 628 light-years away in the Virgo constellation.
==Planetary system== In 2009, a planet of the star was announced by the SuperWASP project. It is another hot Jupiter type exoplanet.
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