WASP-2

WASP-2

WASP-2

Multiple star system in the constellation Delphinus

WASP-2 is a binary star system in the Delphinus constellation located about 500 light-years away.[3] The primary is magnitude 12 orange dwarf star, orbited by red dwarf star on wide orbit.[4][7] The star system shows an infrared excess noise of unknown origin.[8]

Quick Facts Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0, Apparent magnitude (V) ...

Planetary system

This star has one extrasolar planet WASP-2b, detected by the SuperWASP project in 2006.[9]

More information Companion (in order from star), Mass ...

Binary star

In 2008 a study was undertaken of fourteen stars with exoplanets that were originally discovered using the transit method through relatively small telescopes. These systems were re-examined with the 2.2 m (87 in) reflector telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain. This star system, along with two others, was determined to be a previously unknown binary star system. The previously unknown secondary star is a dim magnitude 15 M-type star separated by about 111 AU from the primary, appearing offset from the primary by about one arc second in the images. This discovery resulted in a recalculation of parameters for both the planet and the primary star.[1]

The re-examination of the WASP-2 spectrum in 2015, have resulted in the measurement of stellar companion temperature equal to 3513±28 K, and angular separation of 0.73 arc second.[10]

See also

Notes

  1. [a 1]
    The secondary star is identified with a "C" suffix so as to not confuse it with the planetary designation suffix "b".[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Daemgen; et al. (2009). "Binarity of transit host stars - Implications for planetary parameters" (PDF). Astronomy and Astrophysics. 498 (2): 567–574. arXiv:0902.2179. Bibcode:2009A&A...498..567D. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200810988. S2CID 9893376.
  2. [2]
    Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  3. [3]
    "WASP-2". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  4. [4]
    Quarles, Billy; Li, Gongjie; Kostov, Veselin; Haghighipour, Nader (2020), "Orbital stability of circumstellar planets in binary systems", The Astronomical Journal, 159 (3): 80, arXiv:1912.11019, Bibcode:2020AJ....159...80Q, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab64fa, S2CID 209444271
  5. [5]
    Wöllert, Maria; Brandner, Wolfgang; Bergfors, Carolina; Henning, Thomas (2015), "A Lucky Imaging search for stellar companions to transiting planet host stars", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 575: A23, arXiv:1507.01938, Bibcode:2015A&A...575A..23W, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201424091, S2CID 119250579
  6. [6]
    Southworth, J.; Bohn, A. J.; Kenworthy, M. A.; Ginski, C.; Mancini, L. (2020), "A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. II.Revised properties of transiting planetary systems with companions", Astronomy & Astrophysics, A74: 635, arXiv:2001.08225, Bibcode:2020A&A...635A..74S, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201937334, S2CID 210860775
  7. [7]
    Precise Differential Analysis of Stellar Metallicities: Application to Solar Analogs Including 16 Cyg A and B
  8. [8]
    Sada, Pedro V.; Deming, Drake; Jennings, Donald E.; Jackson, Brian k.; Hamilton, Catrina M.; Fraine, Jonathan; Peterson, Steven W.; Haase, Flynn; Bays, Kevin; Lunsford, Allen; o'Gorman, Eamon (2012), "Extrasolar Planet Transits Observed at Kitt Peak National Observatory", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 124 (913): 212–229, arXiv:1202.2799, Bibcode:2012PASP..124..212S, doi:10.1086/665043, S2CID 29665395
  9. [9]
    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.
  10. [10]
    Piskorz, Danielle; Knutson, Heather A.; Ngo, Henry; Muirhead, Philip S.; Batygin, Konstantin; Crepp, Justin R.; Hinkley, Sasha; Morton, Timothy D. (2015), "Friends of Hot Jupiters. III. An Infrared Spectroscopic Search for Low-Mass Stellar Companions", The Astrophysical Journal, 814 (2): 148, arXiv:1510.08062, Bibcode:2015ApJ...814..148P, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/148, S2CID 11525988
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