This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system CoRoT-9. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2010Natur.464..384D | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2010 / 3 / 18 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | CoRoT | |
| Right ascension | 18 43 08.81 | h m s |
| Declination | +06 12 15.2 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 280.78671 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 6.20422 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.69 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.69 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.337 ( 8.09 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.6 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455365.52723 ± 0.00037 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 95.272656 ± 0.000068 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2017A+A...603A..43B |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5613 ± 36 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.02 ± 0.03 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.96 ± 0.04 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.96 ± 0.06 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.476 ± 0.063 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.07 ± 0.21 ( 1.51 ± 0.30 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.133 +0.042 −0.037 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.4021 ± 0.0054 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.84 ± 0.05 ( 267 ± 15 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.066 +0.075 −0.063 ( 11.95 + 0.84 − 0.71 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 18.2 +2.7 −2.3 3.26 +0.06 −0.06 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.65 +0.14 −0.12 ( 0.86 +0.19 −0.16 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 420 ± 16 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2017A+A...603A..43B |
CoRoT-9 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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