This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system CoRoT-6. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2010A+A...512A..14F | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2010 / 1 / 12 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | CoRoT | |
| Right ascension | 18 44 17.40 | h m s |
| Declination | +06 39 47.4 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 281.07250 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 6.66317 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.91 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 12.12 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.170 ( 4.08 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.5 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454826.66625 ± 0.00054 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 8.8866210 ± 0.0000063 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2021MNRAS.504.5671E |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6090 ± 70 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.20 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.054 ± 0.063 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.043 ± 0.030 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.425 ± 0.022 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.929 ± 0.064 ( 1.311 ± 0.090 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0855 ± 0.0017 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 2.96 ± 0.34 ( 940 ± 108 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.185 ± 0.041 ( 13.28 ± 0.46 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 52.3 ± 6.4 3.72 ± 0.05 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 1.66 ± 0.23 ( 2.20 ± 0.31 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1025 ± 16 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2011MNRAS.417.2166S |
CoRoT-6 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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