WASP-71

Also known as BD+00 316, Mpingo

WASP-71, also named Mpingo, is an ordinary star with a close-orbiting planetary companion in the equatorial constellation of Cetus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 10.56, it is too faint to be visible to the naked eye. This star is located at a distance of 1,160 light-years based on parallax measurements, and is drifting further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of 7.7 km/s.

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It sits within the topics Cetus, Durchmusterung objects and F-type main-sequence stars.

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Distance from Earth: 200
Radius: 2.32
Mass: 1.572

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catalog code: BD+00 316
effective temperature: 6050
apparent magnitude: 10.568543
radial velocity: 5.28
metallicity: 0.15
parallax: 2.8158
surface gravity: 9300
name: Mpingo
luminosity: 5.8674645
spectral class: F8IV
age estimated by a dating method: 2000000000
right ascension component of proper motion: 23.418
declination component of proper motion: -6.844
right ascension: 29.26334978377
declination: 0.75885418136

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This is classified as an F-type star with a stellar classification of F8. It is more than double the diameter of the Sun with 1.5 times the Sun's mass. The star is younger than the Sun at about 3.6 billion years, yet is already evolving away from the main sequence. BD+00 316 is enriched in heavy elements, having 140% of the solar abundance of iron. Imaging surveys in 2015 and 2020 failed to find any stellar companions for BD+00 316.

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