The WASP-41 system contains 2 exoplanets. It is located 532.84 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 0.81 solar masses |
Radius | 0.83 solar radiae |
Temperature | 5545 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | 0.06 decimal exponent |
Age | 1.2 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, WASP-41 b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 270.156 Earth masses |
Density | 0.742 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 12.330 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.04022 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 3.052 days |
Discovery Method | Transit |
Discovery Facility | SuperWASP |
Discovery Telescope | Canon 200mm f/1.8L |
Discovery Instrument | iKon-L CCD Camera |
Discovery Date | 2011-05 |
Reference | Maxted et al. 2011 |
At more than 50 Earth masses, WASP-41 c is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 1010.699 Earth masses |
Density | 2.470 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 13.100 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 1.07 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.294 |
Orbital Period | 421.000 days |
Discovery Method | Radial Velocity |
Discovery Facility | La Silla Observatory |
Discovery Telescope | 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | CORALIE Spectrograph |
Discovery Date | 2015-09 |
Reference | Neveu-VanMalle et al. 2015 |