XO-1
| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 |
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|---|---|
| Constellation | Corona Borealis |
| Right ascension | 16h 02m 11.847s |
| Declination | +28° 10′ 10.44″ |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 11.19 ± 0.03 |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | G1V |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 11.85 ± 0.04 |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 11.19 ± 0.03 |
| Apparent magnitude (J) | 9.939 ± 0.022 |
| Apparent magnitude (H) | 9.601 ± 0.017 |
| Apparent magnitude (K) | 9.527 ± 0.015 |
| Variable type | Planetary transit variable |
| Astrometry | |
| Proper motion (μ) |
RA: –17.9 ± 0.7 mas/yr Dec.: 15.2 ± 0.6 mas/yr |
| Distance | 561 ± 39ly (172 ± 12pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 5.02+0.14 −0.16 |
| Details | |
| Mass | 1.027+0.057 −0.061 M☉ |
| Radius | 0.94 ± 0.02 R☉ |
| Luminosity | 0.86+0.12 −0.10 L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 4.50 ± 0.01 cgs |
| Temperature | 5738 ± 65 K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | –0.06 ± 0.07 dex |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 1.1 ± 1.0 km/s |
| Age | 1.0+3.1 −0.9 Gyr |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
XO-1 is a magnitude 11 yellow dwarf star located approximately 560 light-years away 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.
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 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. An independent confirmation of the planet was made by the SuperWASP project.
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. However an independent reinvestigation of the same data was unable to reproduce these results.
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