WASP-5b: a dense, very hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star
WASP-5b: a dense, very hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star
We report the discovery of WASP-5b, a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting a 12th-mag G-type star in the Southern hemisphere. The 1.6-d orbital period places WASP-5b in the class of very-hot Jupiters and leads to a predicted equilibrium temperature of 1750 K. WASP-5b is the densest of any known Jovian-mass planet, being …