This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system KELT-6. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
Quantity | Value | Unit |
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Reference of discovery paper | 2014AJ....147...39C | |
Date of discovery paper | 2013 / 8 / 13 | y / m / d |
Data/telescope used for discovery | KELT | |
Right ascension | 13 03 55.65 | h m s |
Declination | +30 38 24.3 | d m s |
Right ascension (decimal) | 195.98188 | degrees |
Declination (decimal) | 30.64008 | degrees |
V-band apparent magnitude | 10.42 | mag |
K-band apparent magnitude | 9.08 | mag |
Transit duration | 0.243 ( 5.83 ) | day hour |
Transit depth | 0.6 | % |
Time of mid-transit | 2458936.84630 ± 0.00065 | HJD or BJD |
Orbital period | 7.8456067 ± 0.0000096 | days |
Reference for orbital ephemeris | arXiv:2407.20846 |
Quantity | Value | Unit |
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Stellar effective temperature | 6246 ± 88 | K |
Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.22 ± 0.06 | dex |
Stellar mass | 1.11 ± 0.06 | Msun |
Stellar radius | 1.34 ± 0.06 | Rsun |
Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.22 ± 0.09 | c.g.s. |
Stellar mean density | ρsun g cm-3 | |
Orbital eccentricity | 0.22 +0.12 −0.10 | |
Orbital semimajor axis | 0.07939 +0.00100 −0.00099 | AU |
Planetary mass | 0.44 ± 0.02 ( 139.87 ± 6.36 ) | Mjup Mearth |
Planetary radius | 1.02 ± 0.05 ( 11.43 ± 0.56 ) | Rjup Rearth |
Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
Planetary mean density | 0.20 ± 0.03 ( 0.265 ± 0.040 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1313 +59 −38 | K |
Reference of detailed study | 2021MNRAS.506.3810B |
Reference | λ (degrees) |
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Damasso et al. (2015) | −36 ± 11 |
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