Planet HW Vir (AB) b

Name	HW Vir (AB) b
Discovered in	2008
M × sin i	14.3 ± 1 MJ
Semi-major axis	4.69 ± 0.06 AU
Orbital period	4640 ± 73 days
Eccentricity	0.4 ± 0.1
ω	-18 ± 10
Tperi	2.45241e+06
Radius	—
Inclination	—
Update	June 15, 2012
Detection method	pulsar
Molecules detected	—

Remarks

Nov. 2008: The object HW Vir (AB) b is named HW Vir 3 in Lee et al (2009)

Star

Name	HW Vir (AB)
Distance	181 ± 20 pc
Spectral type	sdB+M
Apparent magnitude V	10.9
Mass	0.627 ± 0.013 MSun
Age	Gyr
Effective temperature	K
Radius	RSun
Metallicity [Fe/H]
RA2000	12:44:20.0
Dec2000	-08:40:17
Planetary system	2 planets

More data

• Simbad
• Most recent references (ADS)

Related publications

The quest for companions to post-common envelope binaries: III. A reexamination of HW Virginis
June 15, 2012 BEUERMANN K., DREIZLER S., HESSMN F. & DELLER J.
Astron. & Astrophys.
arxiv

A Uniformly Derived Catalogue of Exoplanets from Radial Velocities
Feb. 10, 2012 HOLLIS M., BALAN S., LEVER G. & LAHAV O.
MNRAS
arxiv

The Exoplanet Handbook
May 22, 2012 Michael Perryman
Content
Content and Chapter 5

Defining and cataloging exoplanets: The exoplanet.eu database
Aug. 1, 2011 SCHNEIDER J., DEDIEU C., LE SIDANER P., SAVALLE R. & ZOLOTUKHIN I.
Astron. & Astrophys., 532, A79
paper   arxiv

The Exoplanet Orbit Database
April 23, 2011 WRIGHT J., FAKHOURI O., MARCY G., HAN E., FENG Y., JOHNSON A., HOWARD A., VALENTI J., ANDERSON J. & PISKUNOV N.
PASP, 123, 412
paper   arxiv

The Fate of Planets
Jan. 11, 2011 VILLAVER E.
arxiv

Exoplanet Data Explorer
Dec. 6, 2010 WRIGHT J., MARCY G. & the California Planet Survey consortium
web page

The Hill stability of the possible moons of extrasolar planets
Sept. 11, 2010 DONNISON J.
MNRAS, 406, 1918
paper

The sdB+M Eclipsing System HW Virginis and its Circumbinary Planets
Sept. 16, 2010 LEE J., KIM S.-L., KIM C.-H., KOCH R., LEE, C.-U., KIM H.-I. & PARK J.-H.
Astron. J., 137, 3181
paper