HD 185269

HD 185269 is a seventh magnitude star approximately 153 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is easily visible to binoculars, but not the naked eye.

The star is a quarter more massive and four times more luminous than our local star. The spectrum of the star is G0IV.

Planetary system

On August 18, 2006, a Jupiter-mass hot Jupiter was found by Moutou and Johnson. The planet takes 6.8 days to orbit at 0.077 AU from the star in an eccentric orbit.

See also

* List of extrasolar planets

References

* Moutou et al.; Loeillet, B.; Bouchy, F.; Da Silva, R.; Mayor, M.; Pont, F.; Queloz, D.; Santos, N. C. et al. (10-2006). "ELODIE metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters. III. A hot Jupiter orbiting the star HD 185269". Astronomy and Astrophysics 458: 327–329. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066029. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006A%26A...458..327M.
* Johnson et al.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Fischer, Debra A.; Henry, Gregory W.; Wright, Jason T.; Isaacson, Howard; McCarthy, Chris (12-2006). "An Eccentric Hot Jupiter Orbiting the Subgiant HD 185269". The Astrophysical Journal 652: 1724–1728. doi:10.1086/508255. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006ApJ...652.1724J.

External links

* "Notes for star HD 185269". The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia. http://exoplanet.eu/star.php?st=HD+185269.
* "HD 185269". Systemic. http://oklo.org/?p=204.