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WASP-1
Star in the constellation Andromeda
Coordinates: 00h 20m 40s, +31° 59′ 24″

WASP-1 is a magnitude 12 binary star system located about 1,250 light-years away in the Andromeda constellation. The binary system consists of a metal-rich F-type main-sequence star, named WASP-1A, and a distant low-mass star, named WASP-1B. WASP-1A has one known transiting hot Jupiter exoplanet named WASP-1b.

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Stellar companion

WASP-1A has a distant companion star, named WASP-1B. WASP-1B is a low-mass star that is around 0.3 times as massive as the Sun and has an effective temperature of about 3400 K.3: 24  WASP-1B is located northward of WASP-1A at an angular separation of about 4.6 arcseconds, corresponding to a projected distance of 1587 AU.4: 13, 15  WASP-1B was first identified in observations from 2006 and confirmed in further observations from 2012 to 2014, which showed that it shares the proper motion of WASP-1A, indicating the two stars are gravitationally bound to each other.5: 15 

Planetary system

In 2006, an extrasolar planet was discovered by the Wide Angle Search for Planets team using the transit method.6 The planet has a density of 0.31 to 0.40 g/cm3, making it about half as dense as Saturn, and one third as dense as water. The orbit of WASP-1b is inclined to the rotational axis of the star by 79.0+4.3−4.5 degrees, making it a nearly "polar" orbit.7

Two searches for additional planets using transit-timing variations have yielded negative results.89

The WASP-1 planetary system10
Companion(in order from star)MassSemimajor axis(AU)Orbital period(days)EccentricityInclinationRadius
b0.948+0.029−0.028 MJ0.03958+0.00047−0.000492.51994480±0.00000050<0.01390.0+0.0−2.9°1.514+0.052−0.047 RJ

See also

References

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  3. Ngo, Henry; Knutson, Heather A.; Hinkley, Sasha; Crepp, Justin R.; Bechter, Eric B.; Batygin, Konstantin; et al. (February 2015). "Friends of Hot Jupiters. II. No Correspondence between Hot-jupiter Spin-Orbit Misalignment and the Incidence of Directly Imaged Stellar Companions". The Astrophysical Journal. 800 (2): 22. arXiv:1501.00013. Bibcode:2015ApJ...800..138N. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/138. 138.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: year (link) https://doi.org/10.1088%2F0004-637X%2F800%2F2%2F138 ↩

  4. Ngo, Henry; Knutson, Heather A.; Hinkley, Sasha; Crepp, Justin R.; Bechter, Eric B.; Batygin, Konstantin; et al. (February 2015). "Friends of Hot Jupiters. II. No Correspondence between Hot-jupiter Spin-Orbit Misalignment and the Incidence of Directly Imaged Stellar Companions". The Astrophysical Journal. 800 (2): 22. arXiv:1501.00013. Bibcode:2015ApJ...800..138N. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/138. 138.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: year (link) https://doi.org/10.1088%2F0004-637X%2F800%2F2%2F138 ↩

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  6. Cameron, A. Collier; et al. (2007). "WASP-1b and WASP-2b: two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 375 (3): 951–957. arXiv:astro-ph/0609688. Bibcode:2007MNRAS.375..951C. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11350.x. S2CID 735515. https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/375/3/951/1139249 ↩

  7. Simpson, E. K.; Pollacco, D.; Cameron, A. Collier; Hébrard, G.; Anderson, D. R.; Barros, S. C. C.; Boisse, I.; Bouchy, F.; Faedi, F.; Gillon, M.; Hebb, L.; Keenan, F. P.; Miller, G. R. M.; Moutou, C.; Queloz, D.; Skillen, I.; Sorensen, P.; Stempels, H. C.; Triaud, A.; Watson, C. A.; Wilson, P. A. (2011). "The spin-orbit angles of the transiting exoplanets WASP-1b, WASP-24b, WASP-38b and HAT-P-8b from Rossiter-Mc Laughlin observations★". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 414 (4): 3023–3035. arXiv:1011.5664. Bibcode:2011MNRAS.414.3023S. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18603.x. S2CID 46522188. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2966.2011.18603.x ↩

  8. Granata, V.; et al. (2014). "TASTE IV: Refining ephemeris and orbital parameters for HAT-P-20b and WASP-1b". Astronomische Nachrichten. 335 (8): 797–803. arXiv:1405.3288. Bibcode:2014AN....335..797G. doi:10.1002/asna.201412072. S2CID 118341059. /wiki/ArXiv_(identifier) ↩

  9. Maciejewski, G.; et al. (2014). "Revisiting Parameters for the WASP-1 Planetary System" (PDF). Acta Astronomica. 64 (1): 11–26. arXiv:1402.6518. Bibcode:2014AcA....64...27M. http://acta.astrouw.edu.pl/Vol64/n1/pdf/pap_64_1_3.pdf ↩

  10. Bonomo, A. S.; et al. (2017). "The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG . XIV. Investigating giant planet migration history via improved eccentricity and mass determination for 231 transiting planets". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 602. A107. arXiv:1704.00373. Bibcode:2017A&A...602A.107B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629882. S2CID 118923163. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2017/06/aa29882-16/aa29882-16.html ↩