This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system CoRoT-16. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012A+A...541A.149O | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 5 / 19 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | CoRoT | |
| Right ascension | 18 34 05.93 | h m s |
| Declination | −06 00 09.3 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 278.52471 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -6.00258 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 15.63 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 12.85 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.122 ( 2.93 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.9 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454923.9138 ± 0.0022 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 5.35227 ± 0.00020 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2012A+A...541A.149O |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5650 ± 100 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.19 ± 0.06 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.098 +0.082 −0.078 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.19 +0.14 −0.13 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.36 ± 0.1 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.66 +0.23 −0.17 ( 0.93 +0.32 −0.24 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.33 +0.09 −0.10 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0618 ± 0.0015 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.535 +0.085 −0.083 ( 170 +27 −26 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.17 +0.16 −0.14 ( 13.1 + 1.8 − 1.6 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | 0.33 +0.16 −0.11 ( 0.44 +0.21 −0.15 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2012A+A...541A.149O |
CoRoT-16 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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