Discovery Method
Transit
Consistent across records
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WASP-43 b
Host star WASP-43 • 10.42 R⊕ • 0.81 d orbit
Records
14
archive rows
Discovery
2011
Transit
Radius
10.42 R⊕
default parameter set
Mass
565.7 M⊕
default parameter set
WASP-43
temperature unconstrained
Canonical Summary
Adopted planet values from the default parameter set
Values come from the archive's default parameter set. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.
Selected source: Hellier et al. 2011
Host Star
WASP-43
Stable across source rows
Discovery Year
2011
Stable across source rows
Orbital Period
0.81 day
0.80 to 0.81
Semi-Major Axis
0.01 au
0.01 to 0.02
Radius
10.42 Rearth
10.42 to 13.11
Mass
565.7 Mearth
565.7 to 651.6
Density
2.94 g/cm**3
2.28 to 2.94
Scale Comparison
Radius against familiar reference worlds
Current adopted radius: 10.42 R⊕ • circles scaled linearly by radius
Earth
1.0 R⊕ baseline
WASP-43 b
10.42 R⊕
Jupiter
11.2 R⊕ reference
Provenance
Underlying measurements and references
Evidence Summary
Rows
14
Refs
14
Methods
1
Discoverystable
Facilitystable
Perioddisputed
Radiusdisputed
Massdisputed
Eq. Tempdisputed
| Year | Method | Facility | Telescope | Period | Radius | Mass | Eq. Temp | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | 10.42 Rearth | 565.7 Mearth | — | Hellier et al. 2011 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Kreidberg et al. 2014 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Jiang et al. 2016 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Ricci et al. 2015 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.80 day | 10.42 Rearth | 572.1 Mearth | 1350 K | Salz et al. 2015 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | 11.28 Rearth | 635.0 Mearth | 1426.7 K | Esposito et al. 2017 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | 13.11 Rearth | — | 1302.8 K | ExoFOP |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Ivshina & Winn 2022 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Murphy et al. 2023 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Hoyer et al. 2016 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | 11.61 Rearth | 651.6 Mearth | — | Bonomo et al. 2017 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2022 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Patel & Espinoza 2022 |
| 2011 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 0.81 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2023 |