WASP-33 - System
Simulates WASP-33 b, a retrograde hot Jupiter around a pulsating A-type star. The planet and the star's vibrations perturb each other every orbit. The orbit is retrograde relative to the star's spin.
Exoplanets
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Landmark exoplanet systems: the first confirmed planets, the discoveries that opened each detection method, and the architectures that changed the field. Pulsar planets, 51 Pegasi, transiting hot Jupiters, imaged giants, circumbinary worlds, and compact chains such as TRAPPIST-1. These systems also remain in their planet-count lists.
WASP-39 - System
Simulates WASP-39 b, the benchmark planet of JWST's first exoplanet results. Its puffy atmosphere revealed water, carbon dioxide, and photochemical sulfur dioxide.
WASP-43 - System
Simulates WASP-43 b, a benchmark hot Jupiter for phase curves. Hubble and JWST have mapped how heat flows from its permanent dayside to the night. A year lasts about 19.5 hours around a K dwarf.
WASP-47 - System
Simulates WASP-47, a rare hot Jupiter with nearby sibling planets. An inner super-Earth and an outer Neptune show the giant did not clear the system. Hot Jupiters almost never keep such close neighbors.
WASP-76 - System
Simulates WASP-76 b, an ultra-hot Jupiter where iron vapor on the dayside may condense as it flows onto the cooler night side. The night side is cool enough that iron could rain.
WASP-96 - System
Simulates WASP-96 b, a clear hot Saturn used for some of JWST's first exoplanet spectra. Water showed up in a nearly cloud-free atmosphere. The spectrum is unusually free of high-altitude clouds.
WD 1856+534 - System
Simulates WD 1856 b, a Jupiter-sized world that survived or arrived around a white dwarf. It transits a dead star only about the size of Earth. A year around the white dwarf lasts only 1.4 days.
Wolf 1061 - System
Simulates Wolf 1061, a red dwarf 14 light-years away. Planet c orbits in the habitable zone of one of the nearest known planetary systems. Three planets orbit this nearby M dwarf.
XO-3 - System
Simulates XO-3 b, a massive hot Jupiter on a tilted, eccentric orbit. Its spin-orbit misalignment is evidence that the planet was scattered inward. The planet is roughly twelve times Jupiter's mass.
bet Pic - System
Simulates Beta Pictoris, a young star with a famous debris disk and two imaged giant planets. Beta Pic b was the first exoplanet whose spin was measured.
eps Eri - System
Simulates Epsilon Eridani, one of the nearest young Sun-like stars. It has a debris disk and a giant planet, a snapshot of an early planetary system. The star itself is only about 10 light-years from the Sun.
gam Cep - System
Simulates Gamma Cephei Ab, the earliest radial-velocity planet signal. Suspected in 1988 and confirmed in 2002, it orbits in a close binary star system.
tau Cet - System
Simulates Tau Ceti, the nearest single Sun-like star. Its compact super-Earths make this neighbor a long-standing target in the search for nearby worlds.
ups And - System
Simulates Upsilon Andromedae, the first multi-planet system found around a main-sequence star. Three giants on mutually tilted, eccentric orbits tug one another.