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WASP-18
Star in the constellation Phoenix
Coordinates: 01h 37m 25s, −45° 40′ 41″

WASP-18 is a magnitude 9 star located 400 light-years (120 parsecs) away in the Phoenix constellation of the southern hemisphere. It has a mass of 1.29 solar masses.

The star, although similar to the Sun in terms of overall contents of heavy elements, is depleted in carbon. The carbon to oxygen molar ratio of 0.23±0.05 for WASP-18 is well below the solar ratio of 0.55.

There is a red dwarf companion star at a separation of 3,519 AU.

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Planetary system

In 2009, the SuperWASP project announced the discovery of a large, hot Jupiter type exoplanet, WASP-18b, orbiting very close to this star. It has an orbital period of less than a day and a mass 10 times that of Jupiter.5

Observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory failed to find any X-rays coming from WASP-18,6 and it is thought that this is caused by WASP-18b disrupting the star's magnetic field by causing a reduction in convection in the star's atmosphere. Tidal forces from the planet may also explain the higher amounts of lithium measured in earlier optical studies of WASP-18.7

A 2019 study proposed a second candidate planet with a 2-day orbital period based on transit-timing variations,8 but a 2020 study using data from both TESS and ground-based surveys ruled out the existence of a planet with the proposed properties, setting an upper limit of 10 Earth masses on any planet with this period.9

The WASP-18 planetary system10
Companion(in order from star)MassSemimajor axis(AU)Orbital period(days)EccentricityInclinationRadius
b10.20±0.35 MJ0.02024+0.00029−0.000310.94145223(24)0.0051+0.0070−0.003783.5+2.0−1.6°1.240±0.079 RJ

See also

References

  1. "WASP-18b". Exoplanet Transit Database. Retrieved 2009-08-29. http://var2.astro.cz/ETD/etd.php?STARNAME=WASP-18&PLANET=b ↩

  2. Cortés-Zuleta, Pía; Rojo, Patricio; et al. (April 2020). "TraMoS. V. Updated ephemeris and multi-epoch monitoring of the hot Jupiters WASP-18Ab, WASP-19b, and WASP-77Ab". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 636: A98. arXiv:2001.11112. Bibcode:2020A&A...636A..98C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936279. S2CID 241596186. /wiki/Astronomy_%26_Astrophysics ↩

  3. Polanski, Alex S.; Crossfield, Ian J. M.; Howard, Andrew W.; Isaacson, Howard; Rice, Malena (2022), "Chemical Abundances for 25 JWST Exoplanet Host Stars with KeckSpec", Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 6 (8): 155, arXiv:2207.13662, Bibcode:2022RNAAS...6..155P, doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ac8676 /wiki/ArXiv_(identifier) ↩

  4. Csizmadia, Sz.; Hellard, H.; Smith, A. M. S. (March 2019). "An estimate of the k2 Love number of WASP-18Ab from its radial velocity measurements". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 623: A45. arXiv:1812.04463. Bibcode:2019A&A...623A..45C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834376. S2CID 119387925. /wiki/Astronomy_%26_Astrophysics ↩

  5. Hellier, Coel; et al. (2009). "An orbital period of 0.94days for the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-18b" (PDF). Nature. 460 (7259): 1098–1100. Bibcode:2009Natur.460.1098H. doi:10.1038/nature08245. hdl:2268/28276. PMID 19713926. S2CID 205217669. http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/bitstream/2268/28276/1/nature08245.pdf ↩

  6. Pillitteri, I.; et al. (July 2014). "No X-rays from WASP-18. Implications for its age, activity, and the influence of its massive hot Jupiter". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 567: A128. arXiv:1406.2620. Bibcode:2014A&A...567A.128P. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201423579. S2CID 118527777. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2014/07/aa23579-14/aa23579-14.html ↩

  7. "NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old". Chandra X-ray Observatory. Retrieved 20 September 2014. http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/14_releases/press_091614.html ↩

  8. Pearson, Kyle A. (December 2019). "A Search for Multiplanet Systems with TESS Using a Bayesian N-body Retrieval and Machine Learning". The Astronomical Journal. 158 (6): 243. arXiv:1907.03377. Bibcode:2019AJ....158..243P. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab4e1c. S2CID 195833716. https://doi.org/10.3847%2F1538-3881%2Fab4e1c ↩

  9. Cortés-Zuleta, Pía; Rojo, Patricio; et al. (April 2020). "TraMoS. V. Updated ephemeris and multi-epoch monitoring of the hot Jupiters WASP-18Ab, WASP-19b, and WASP-77Ab". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 636: A98. arXiv:2001.11112. Bibcode:2020A&A...636A..98C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936279. S2CID 241596186. /wiki/Astronomy_%26_Astrophysics ↩

  10. Cortés-Zuleta, Pía; Rojo, Patricio; et al. (April 2020). "TraMoS. V. Updated ephemeris and multi-epoch monitoring of the hot Jupiters WASP-18Ab, WASP-19b, and WASP-77Ab". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 636: A98. arXiv:2001.11112. Bibcode:2020A&A...636A..98C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936279. S2CID 241596186. /wiki/Astronomy_%26_Astrophysics ↩