WASP-16b is an extrasolar planet that travels around its star, WASP-16, every 3.12 days. Likely a hot Jupiter. Its mass is near .855 of Jupiter, the radius is 1.008 of Jupiter. It was discovered in 2009 by a team led by T.A. Lister as part of the Wide Angle Search for Planets project.[1]

WASP-16b

Size comparison of WASP-16b with Jupiter.
Discovery
Discovered by	Lister et al.
Discovery date	August 3, 2009
Detection method	Transit and Radial veloctiy
Orbital characteristics
Semi-major axis	0.0421+0.001 −0.0018 AU
Eccentricity	0
Orbital period (sidereal)	3.1186009+1.46e-5 −1.31e-5 d
Inclination	85.22+0.27 −0.43
Star	WASP-16
Physical characteristics
Mass	0.855 ± 0.059 MJ

Characteriscics

In 2012, it was found from Rossiter–McLaughlin effect what WASP-31b orbit is orbit the slow-rotating and likely old parent star WASP-16 in prograde direction, with WASP-16 star rotational axis inclined to planetary orbit by -4.2⁺¹¹
_−13.9[2]

References

External links

Media related to WASP-16b at Wikimedia Commons

• arxiv, WASP-16b: A new Jupiter-like planet transiting a southern solar analog

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