WASP-107

Planetary system · 211.2 light-years away · also TYC 5530-1795-1

WASP-107 is 211 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this K6 star; the first was found in 2017 by transit (SuperWASP-South).

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Worth knowing

WASP-107 b goes round its star every 5.72 days, 15 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.

The star

Spectral typeK6
Surface temperature4,425 K
Mass0.683 solar masses
Radius0.657 solar radii
Luminosity0.132 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude11.592
Ageabout 3.4 billion years
Distance from the Sun211.2 light-years (64.7 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 188.3864°, Dec -10.1462°
ConstellationVirgo

Planets (2)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
WASP-107 b5.72 days0.0550 AU10.48 R⊕33.022 M⊕Transit, 2017
WASP-107 c3.0 years1.827 AU from Kepler’s law13 R⊕ estimated111.24 M⊕ minimumRadial Velocity, 2020

Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.

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