This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting brown dwarf system CoRoT-15. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2011A+A...525A..68B | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2010 / 10 / 1 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | CoRoT | |
| Right ascension | 06 28 27.82 | h m s |
| Declination | +06 11 10.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 97.11592 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 6.18625 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 15.5 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 13.39 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.135 ( 3.24 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.68 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454753.5608 ± 0.0011 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.06036 ± 0.00003 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2011A+A...525A..68B |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6340 ± 190 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.09 ± 0.19 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.29 ± 0.12 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.40 ± 0.14 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.288 +0.059 −0.191 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.52 +0.12 −0.25 ( 0.73 +0.17 −0.35 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.042 ± 0.039 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0458 +0.0018 −0.0022 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 64.0 ± 5.0 ( 20345 ± 1589 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.045 +0.347 −0.091 ( 11.7 + 3.9 − 1.0 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 1470 +240 −620 5.17 +0.07 −0.24 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 53 +13 −29 ( 70 +17 −38 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1670 +200 −80 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2023MNRAS.519.5177C |
CoRoT-15 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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