This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-6. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2009A+A...501..785G | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2009 / 1 / 29 | y / m / d |
| Right ascension | 23 12 37.75 | h m s |
| Declination | −22 40 26.1 | d m s |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 12.16 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 10.32 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.10860 ( 2.6064 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 2.2 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454425.02180 ± 0.00011 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.36100208 ± 0.00000031 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2015MNRAS.450.1760T |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5375 ± 65 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.20 ± 0.09 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.836 ± 0.067 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.864 ± 0.025 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.487 ± 0.017 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.296 ± 0.053 ( 1.829 ± 0.075 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.054 +0.018 −0.014 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0414 ± 0.0011 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.485 ± 0.028 ( 154.18 ± 8.90 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.230 ± 0.037 ( 13.79 ± 0.41 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 7.96 ± 0.30 2.90 ± 0.02 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.244 ± 0.015 ( 0.324 ± 0.020 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1184 ± 16 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2015MNRAS.450.1760T |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Gillon et al. (2009) | −11 + 18 - 14 |
| Tregloan-Reed et al. (2015) | 7.2 ± 3.7 |
WASP-6 has not been analysed as part of the Homogeneous Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets project.
Page generated on 2017/08/07 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)