This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting brown dwarf system LHS 6343. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2011ApJ...730...79J | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2010 / 8 / 24 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 10 14.33 | h m s |
| Declination | +46 57 26.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 287.55971 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 46.95736 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.44 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 8.70 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1061 ( 2.546 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 3.6 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455008.07259 ± 0.00001 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 12.7137941 ± 0.0000002 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2024ApJ...972..199F |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 3432 ± 111 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.04 ± 0.08 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.363 ± 0.020 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.375 ± 0.019 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.85 ± 0.01 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 6.93 ± 0.19 ( 9.78 ± 0.27 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.030 ± 0.002 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0797 ± 0.0008 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 62.6 ± 2.2 ( 198999 ± 6994 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.788 ± 0.043 ( 8.83 ± 0.48 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 2510 +230 −220 5.40 +0.04 −0.04 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 121 ± 17 ( 160 ± 22 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 358 ± 3 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2024ApJ...972..199F |
LHS 6343 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
Page generated on 2025/03/24 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)