This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system CoRoT-26. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2013A+A...555A.118A | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2013 / 7 / 16 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | CoRoT | |
| Right ascension | 18 39 00.13 | h m s |
| Declination | +06 58 11.7 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 279.75054 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 6.96992 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 15.76 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 13.26 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.228 ( 5.47 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.6 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454573.6299 ± 0.0008 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 4.20474 ± 0.00005 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2013A+A...555A.118A |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5590 ± 100 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.01 ± 0.13 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.09 ± 0.06 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.79 +0.18 −0.09 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 3.99 +0.05 −0.08 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.573 +0.006 −0.04 ( 0.8085 +0.0085 −0.0564 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0526 ± 0.0010 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.52 ± 0.05 ( 165 ± 15 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.26 +0.13 −0.07 ( 14.12 + 1.46 − 0.78 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 7.8 +1.6 −1.5 2.89 +0.08 −0.09 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.23 +0.07 −0.06 ( 0.305 +0.093 −0.080 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1600 +80 −70 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2013A+A...555A.118A |
CoRoT-26 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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