This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system NGTS-15. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
Quantity | Value | Unit |
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Reference of discovery paper | 2021MNRAS.504.6018T | |
Date of discovery paper | 2021 / 3 / 19 | y / m / d |
Data/telescope used for discovery | NGTS | |
Right ascension | 04 53 25.27 | h m s |
Declination | −32 48 01.3 | d m s |
Right ascension (decimal) | 73.35529 | degrees |
Declination (decimal) | -32.80036 | degrees |
V-band apparent magnitude | 14.56 | mag |
K-band apparent magnitude | 12.91 | mag |
Transit duration | 0.1043 ( 2.503 ) | day hour |
Transit depth | 1.7 | % |
Time of mid-transit | 2458405.0558 ± 0.0007 | HJD or BJD |
Orbital period | 3.27623 ± 0.00001 | days |
Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2021MNRAS.504.6018T |
Quantity | Value | Unit |
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Stellar effective temperature | 5600 ± 150 | K |
Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.15 ± 0.1 | dex |
Stellar mass | 0.995 ± 0.025 | Msun |
Stellar radius | 0.954 ± 0.082 | Rsun |
Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.40 ± 0.11 | c.g.s. |
Stellar mean density | ρsun g cm-3 | |
Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0441 ± 0.0046 | AU |
Planetary mass | 0.751 +0.102 −0.088 ( 238 +32 −27 ) | Mjup Mearth |
Planetary radius | 1.10 ± 0.10 ( 12.3 ± 1.1 ) | Rjup Rearth |
Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
Planetary mean density | 0.56 ± 0.08 ( 0.74 ± 0.11 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1146 ± 47 | K |
Reference of detailed study | 2021MNRAS.504.6018T |
NGTS-15 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
Page generated on 2025/02/12 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)