We report the discovery from WASP-South of a new Jupiter-like extrasolar planet, WASP-16b, which transits its solar analog host star every 3.12 days. Analysis of the transit photometry and radial velocity spectroscopic data leads to a planet with R_p = 1.008+-0.071 R_Jup and M_p =0.855+-0.059 M_Jup, orbiting a host star with R_* = 0.946+-0.054 R_sun and M_* = 1.022+-0.101 M_sun. Comparison of the high resolution stellar spectrum with synthetic spectra and stellar evolution models indicates the host star is a near-solar metallicity ([Fe/H]= 0.01+-0.10) solar analog (Teff = 5700+-150 K, log g= 4.5+-0.2) of intermediate age (Tau = 2.3+5.8-2.2 Gyr).
@article{arxiv.0908.0297,
title = {WASP-16b: A new Jupiter-like planet transiting a southern solar analog},
author = {T. A. Lister and D. R. Anderson and M. Gillon and L. Hebb and B. S. Smalley and A. H. M. J. Triaud and A. Collier Cameron and D. M. Wilson and R. G. West and S. J. Bentley and D. J. Christian and R. Enoch and C. A. Haswell and C. Hellier and K. Horne and J. Irwin and Y. C. Joshi and S. R. Kane and M. Mayor and P. F. L. Maxted and A. J. Norton and N. Parley and F. Pepe and D. Pollacco and D. Queloz and R. Ryans and D. Segransan and I. Skillen and R. A. Street and I. Todd and S. Udry and P. J. Wheatley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0297},
year = {2015}
}