WASP-49 is a yellow dwarf main-sequence star. Its surface temperature is 5600 K. WASP-49 is depleted of heavy elements relative to Sun, with metallicity Fe/H index of -0.23, meaning it has an abundance of iron 59% of the Sun's level.
Planetary system
In 2011, one planet, named WASP-49b was discovered.[7] In 2017, it was found to have an extensive sodium envelope.[3] A study in 2019 using data from the Hubble Space Telescope in near-UV found clear absorption features caused by metals, including magnesium and iron. The magnesium and iron gas is not gravitationally bound to the planet, but could be magnetically confined to the planet.[8][9] The sodium envelope around WASP-49b could be due to an Io-like exomoon.[4][10] This new idea was called interesting, but also speculative.[11]
The WASP-49 planetary system[6]
Companion (in order from star)
Mass
Semimajor axis (AU)
Orbital period (days)
Eccentricity
Inclination
Radius
b
0.399+0.029−0.027MJ
0.0379+0.0010−0.0011
2.7817387±0.0000056
<0.026
84.89±0.19°
1.115±0.047 RJ
References
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.6Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
↑Høg, E. (2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics355: L27–L30. Bibcode: 2000A&A...355L..27H.
↑ 3.03.13.23.3Wyttenbach, A.; Lovis, C.; Ehrenreich, D.; Bourrier, V.; Pino, L.; Allart, R.; Astudillo-Defru, N.; Cegla, H. M. et al. (2017). "Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS)". Astronomy & Astrophysics602: A36. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201630063.
↑ 4.04.14.24.3Oza, Apurva V.; Johnson, Robert E.; Lellouch, Emmanuel; Schmidt, Carl; Schneider, Nick; Huang, Chenliang; Gamborino, Diana; Gebek, Andrea et al. (2019-08-28). "Sodium and Potassium Signatures of Volcanic Satellites Orbiting Close-in Gas Giant Exoplanets". The Astrophysical Journal885 (2): 168. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab40cc. Bibcode: 2019ApJ...885..168O.
↑"WASP-49". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=WASP-49.
↑ 6.06.16.2Bonomo, A. S. et al. (2017), "The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG", Astronomy & Astrophysics602: A107, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629882, Bibcode: 2017A&A...602A.107B
↑Lendl, M.; Anderson, D. R.; Collier-Cameron, A.; Doyle, A. P.; Gillon, M.; Hellier, C.; Jehin, E.; Lister, T. A. et al. (2012), "WASP-42 b and WASP-49 b: Two new transiting sub-Jupiters", Astronomy & Astrophysics544: A72, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219585, Bibcode: 2012A&A...544A..72L
↑Sing, David K. et al. (2019-08-01). "The HST PanCET Program: Exospheric Mg II and Fe II in the Near-UV transmission spectrum of WASP-121b using Jitter Decorrelation". The Astronomical Journal158 (2): 91. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab2986. ISSN 1538-3881.
↑"Hubble Uncovers a 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football" (in en). http://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2019/news-2019-19.
↑"Hints of a volcanically active exomoon". 2019-08-29. https://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2019/medienmitteilungen_2019/hints_of_a_volcanically_active_exomoon/index_eng.html.
↑waspplanets (2019-09-02). "Hints of volcanic exo-moons?" (in en). https://wasp-planets.net/2019/09/02/hints-of-volcanic-exo-moons/.
Coordinates: 6h 4m 21.462s, −16° 57′ 55.06″
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