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Star WASP-103

Yellow-White star WASP-103 is located 1779 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class F8V, that has 122 % of solar mass. There is at least one exoplanet in this system.

Sun distance
1779 light years

WASP-103

Yellow-White star (spectral class F8V)

Location

Right ascension: 16h 37m 15.577s

Declination: 7° 11' 0.11'' (equatorial region)

Parallax: 1.833

Sun distance: 1779.162 ly | 545.5 pc

Basic characteristic

Mass: 122 % M Sun

Size: 144 % R Sun

Temperature: 6110 K | 1.06 T Sun

Age: 4 billions years | 0.87 Sun

Luminosity: 7.6 L Sun

1 exoplanet

WASP-103 b

0.02 AU

462.6 M⊕

17.1 R⊕

0.9 days

More about WASP-103

Star WASP-103 is a main sequence star that fuses hydrogen atoms into helium. It is is approximately 44 % bigger than the Sun and temperature on its surface is around 6110 K (5837 °C), which is about 106 % of Sun's temperature.

      WASP-103 can be found in northern celestial hemisphere.

Other designations of this star
Gaia DR2 4439085988769170432, 2MASS J16371556+0711000

External sources

Thermal Emission from the Hot Jupiter WASP-103b in

Scientific study, Submitted: 24. 03. 2023

Detection of the tidal deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS

Scientific study, 11. 01. 2022

News from this star system

13. 01 2022

Exoplanets

Exoplanet WASP-103 b orbits so close to its star, that it has deformed shape

Astronomers used space telescopes Hubble, Spitzer and CHEOPS to identify deformed shape of an exoplanet orbiting a star 1800 light years away. The exoplanet goes around the star in less than a day. The strong gravity of the star causes the tidal effect, which in turn deforms the exoplanet’s shape.

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