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WASP-18

WASP-18 is a magnitude 9 star located 400 light-years away in the Phoenix constellation of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a mass of 1.29 solar masses.

Planetary system
In 2009, the SuperWASP project announced the discovery of a large, hot Jupiter type exoplanet, WASP-18b, orbiting very close to this star. It has an orbital period of less than a day and a mass 10 times that of Jupiter. A 2019 study proposed a second candidate planet with a 2-day orbital period based on transit-timing variations, but a 2020 study using data from both TESS and ground-based surveys ruled out the existence of a planet with the proposed properties, setting an upper limit of 10 Earth masses on any planet with this period. ==References==
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