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Transit · 2006

HAT-P-1 b

This world receives 260× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 4.47 days; the light you see left it 519 years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Jupiter 
A year
4.47 days0.0556 AU
Temperature
1,049 °C1,322 K

About this world

HAT-P-1 b is a gas giant orbiting HAT-P-1, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G0V) 519 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.53 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 4.47 days at 0.056 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,322 K (1,049 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere has already been studied: 12 spectroscopic observations, 5 of them with the James Webb Space Telescope.

It was discovered in 2006 by transit with HATNet. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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