WASP-14b
Template:Planetbox begin Template:Planetbox image Template:Planetbox star Template:Planetbox orbit Template:Planetbox character Template:Planetbox discovery Template:Planetbox reference Template:Planetbox end WASP-14b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008 by SuperWASP using the transit method. Follow-up radial velocity measurements showed that the mass of WASP-14b is almost eight times larger than that of Jupiter. The radius found by the transit observations show that it has a radius 25% larger than Jupiter. This makes WASP-14b one of the densest exoplanets known.[1] Its radius best fits the model of Jonathan Fortney.[2]
Rotation
As of August 2008, the most recent calculation of WASP-14b's Rossiter–McLaughlin effect and so spin-orbit angle was −14 ± 17 degrees.[3] It is too eccentric for its age and so is possibly pulled into its orbit by another planet.[1]
References
- ^ a b Joshi, Y. C.; et al. (2008). "WASP-14b: A 7.7 Mjup transiting exoplanet in an eccentric orbit". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 392 (4): 1532–1538. arXiv:0806.1478. Bibcode:2009MNRAS.392.1532J. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14178.x.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Fortney; Marley, M. S.; Barnes, J. W. (2007). "Planetary Radii across Five Orders of Magnitude in Mass and Stellar Insolation: Application to Transits". The Astrophysical Journal. 659 (2): 1661–1672. arXiv:astro-ph/0612671. Bibcode:2007ApJ...659.1661F. doi:10.1086/512120.
- ^ Winn, Joshua N. (2008). "Measuring accurate transit parameters". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 4: 99. arXiv:0807.4929v2. doi:10.1017/S174392130802629X.
External links
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