Temperature
5600 K
5600 to 5824
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Stellar HostProfile
WASP-46
G6 V • 375.3 pc
Records
6
literature rows
Planets
1
system count
References
7
distinct source labels
TIC: TIC 231663901
Approximate color
from effective temperature
Canonical Summary
Adopted host values from one source row
Values come from the row with the most populated summary measurements. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.
Stellar source: Ciceri et al. 2016 • System source: TICv8
Mass
0.83 Msun
0.83 to 1.05
Radius
0.86 Rsun
0.86 to 0.92
Age
9.60 Gyr
single adopted value
Distance
375.3 pc
single adopted value
Spectral Type
G6 V
Consistent across records
Planets
1
Stable across source rows
Scale Comparison
Radius against the Sun
Current adopted radius: 0.86 R☉ (circles scaled linearly by radius)
Sun
1.0 R☉ baseline
WASP-46
0.86 R☉
System Layout
Known planets
1 planets linked to this host
WASP-46 b
Transit
◌
Discovery
2011
Period
1.43 days
Radius
13.16 R⊕
Mass
607.1 M⊕
Eq. Temp
1636 K
WASP-46 and Its Jupiter-Like Planet
WASP-46 is a G6 V star located 1220 light-years away. This Sun-like main-sequence dwarf has a mass of 0.828 solar masses and a radius of 0.858 solar radii. Its temperature is 5600 K, and it is 9.6 billion years old. Both its mass and radius are smaller than the Sun's, and its temperature is cooler.
One planet orbits WASP-46: WASP-46 b, a Jupiter-like world discovered by transit in 2011. Its radius of 13.2 Earth radii is larger than Earth's, while its mass of 607 Earth masses is larger than Earth's and roughly 1.91 times Jupiter's mass. WASP-46 b completes an orbit every 1.43 days. Its mean density is 1.47 g/cm³, 0.266 times Earth's.
Provenance
Underlying measurements and references
Evidence Summary
Rows
6
Stellar refs
6
System refs
1
Distancestable
Parallaxstable
Temperaturedisputed
Massdisputed
Radiusdisputed
Agestable
Luminositydisputed
Surface Gravitydisputed
Metallicitydisputed
Spectral Typestable
| ST TEFF | ST MASS | ST RAD | ST AGE | ST LUM | ST SPECTYPE | SY DIST | Stellar Ref | System Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5600 | 0.83 | 0.86 | 9.60 | — | G6 V | 375.3 | Ciceri et al. 2016 | TICv8 |
| 5824 | 1.05 | 0.89 | — | -0.08 | — | 375.3 | TICv8 | TICv8 |
| 5620 | 0.96 | 0.92 | — | — | — | 375.3 | Anderson et al. 2011 | TICv8 |
| 5600 | 0.83 | 0.86 | 9.60 | — | — | 375.3 | Bonomo et al. 2017 | TICv8 |
| 5790 | — | 0.87 | — | -0.11 | — | 375.3 | Gaia DR2 | TICv8 |
| 5600 | — | 0.89 | — | — | — | 375.3 | ExoFOP | TICv8 |