XO-1

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XO-1 / Moldoveanu
Artist's Concept of Transiting Planet XO-1b.jpg
This artist's impression shows a dramatic close-up of the extrasolar planet XO-1b passing in front of a Sun-like star 600 light-years from Earth. The Jupiter-sized planet is in a tight four-day orbit around the star.
Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0       Equinox J2000.0
Constellation Corona Borealis [1]
Right ascension 16h 02m 11.8462s [2]
Declination +28° 10′ 10.420″ [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)11.19 ± 0.03 [3]
Characteristics
Spectral type G1V [3]
Apparent magnitude  (B)11.85 ± 0.04 [3]
Apparent magnitude  (V)11.19 ± 0.03 [3]
Apparent magnitude  (J)9.939 ± 0.022 [4]
Apparent magnitude  (H)9.601 ± 0.017 [4]
Apparent magnitude  (K)9.527 ± 0.015 [4]
Variable type Planetary transit variable [3]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ)RA: −17.349(12)  mas/yr [2]
Dec.: 14.780(15)  mas/yr [2]
Parallax (π)6.1489 ± 0.0136  mas [2]
Distance 530 ± 1  ly
(162.6 ± 0.4  pc)
Absolute magnitude  (MV)5.02+0.14
−0.16 [5]
Details
Mass 1.027+0.057
−0.061 [5]   M☉
Radius 0.94 ± 0.02 [6]   R☉
Luminosity 0.86+0.12
−0.10 [5]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)4.50 ± 0.01 [7]   cgs
Temperature 5738 ± 65 [7]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]−0.06 ± 0.07 [7]   dex
Rotational velocity (v sin i)1.1 ± 1.0 [7]  km/s
Age 1.0+3.1
−0.9 [5]   Gyr
Other designations
Moldoveanu, BD+28 2507, TYC  2041-1657-1, GSC  02041-01657, 2MASS J16021184+2810105 [8]
Database references
SIMBAD data

XO-1 is a magnitude 11 G-type main-sequence star located approximately 530 light-years away [2] in the constellation Corona Borealis. XO-1 has a mass and radius similar to the Sun. In 2006 the extrasolar planet XO-1b was discovered orbiting XO-1 by the transit method using the XO Telescope. [3]

Contents

The star XO-1 is named Moldoveanu. The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Romania, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU. Moldoveanu is the highest peak in Romania. [9] [10] [11]

Planetary system

The XO Project is an international team of professional and amateur astronomers which discovered the Jupiter-sized planet orbiting around XO-1. The team, led by Peter R. McCullough of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, includes four amateur astronomers from North America and Europe. The planet was confirmed using the Harlan J. Smith Telescope and Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas. [3] An independent confirmation of the planet was made by the Wide Angle Search for Planets project. [12] In 2019, the planet was named Negoiu, after Negoiu Peak in Romania.

Further observations with the NICMOS instrument on board the Hubble Space Telescope detected the presence of water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of XO-1b. [13] However an independent reinvestigation of the same data was unable to reproduce these results. [14]

The XO-1 planetary system [15] [16]
Companion
(in order from star)		 Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)		 Orbital period
(days)		 Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b / Negoiu 0.907±0.022  MJ 0.04914±0.000453.94150514(20)<0.01988.84±0.22 ° 1.199±0.017  RJ

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