This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system KELT-16. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2017AJ....153...97O | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2016 / 8 / 3 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | KELT | |
| Right ascension | 20 57 04.44 | h m s |
| Declination | +31 39 39.6 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 314.26850 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 31.66100 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.90 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 10.64 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1037 ( 2.489 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.3 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2457927.48079 ± 0.00012 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 0.96899340 ± 0.00000018 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2022MNRAS.509.1447M |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6237 +55 −54 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.000 +0.085 −0.081 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.195 ± 0.044 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.315 ± 0.018 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.278 ± 0.008 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.526 ± 0.010 ( 0.742 ± 0.014 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.175 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.02035 ± 0.00025 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 2.71 ± 0.16 ( 861 ± 50 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.383 ± 0.025 ( 15.50 ± 0.28 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 35.1 ± 2.0 3.55 ± 0.02 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.968 ± 0.062 ( 1.284 ± 0.082 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 2417 ± 22 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2022MNRAS.509.1447M |
KELT-16 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
Page generated on 2024/11/22 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)