HAT-P-27, also known as WASP-40, is the primary of a binary star system about 659 light-years away. It is a G-type main-sequence star. The star's age is similar to the Sun's at 4.4 billion years.[2]HAT-P-27 is enriched in heavy elements, having a 195% concentration of iron compared to the Sun.
The very dim stellar companion was detected in 2015 at a projected separation of 0.656″[4] and proven to be physically bound to the system in 2016.[6]
Planetary system
In 2011 a transitinghot Jupiter type planet b was detected in a mildly eccentric orbit. The planetary equilibrium temperature is 1207±41 K.[2] The survey in 2013 failed to find any Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and therefore was unable to constrain the inclination of planetary orbit to the equatorial plane of the parent star.[5] No orbital decay was detected as in 2018, despite the close proximity of the planet to the star.[7]
The presence of an additional planet in the system has been suspected since 2015.[8]
In 2024, a detection of a possible Neptune-like planet was reported. It is expected to be analog with Neptune in terms of radius, although is much hotter due to the low orbital separation, one year in this planet last one day and five hours, causing the planetary equilibrium temperature to be 1,426 K (1,153 °C). More observations are needed to validate its existence.[9]
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^ abcBrown, D. J. A.; Collier Cameron, A.; Díaz, R. F.; Doyle, A. P.; Gillon, M.; Lendl, M.; Smalley, B.; Triaud, A. H. M. J.; Anderson, D. R.; Enoch, B.; Hellier, C.; Maxted, P. F. L.; Miller, G. R. M.; Pollacco, D.; Queloz, D.; Boisse, I.; Hébrard, G. (2013), "Analysis of Spin-Orbit Alignment in the Wasp-32, Wasp-38, and Hat-P-27/Wasp-40 Systems", The Astrophysical Journal, 760 (2): 139, arXiv:1303.5649, Bibcode:2012ApJ...760..139B, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/760/2/139, S2CID54033638
^Ngo, Henry; Knutson, Heather A.; Hinkley, Sasha; Bryan, Marta; Crepp, Justin R.; Batygin, Konstantin; Crossfield, Ian; Hansen, Brad; Howard, Andrew W.; Johnson, John A.; Mawet, Dimitri; Morton, Timothy D.; Muirhead, Philip S.; Wang, Ji (2016), "FRIENDS OF HOT JUPITERS. IV. STELLAR COMPANIONS BEYOND 50 au MIGHT FACILITATE GIANT PLANET FORMATION, BUT MOST ARE UNLIKELY TO CAUSE KOZAI–LIDOV MIGRATION", The Astrophysical Journal, 827 (1): 8, arXiv:1606.07102, Bibcode:2016ApJ...827....8N, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/8, S2CID41083068