This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-3. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
Quantity | Value | Unit |
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Reference of discovery paper | 2008MNRAS.385.1576P | |
Date of discovery paper | 2007 / 10 / 26 | y / m / d |
Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
Right ascension | 18 34 31.62 | h m s |
Declination | +35 39 41.5 | d m s |
Right ascension (decimal) | 278.63175 | degrees |
Declination (decimal) | 35.66153 | degrees |
V-band apparent magnitude | 10.64 | mag |
K-band apparent magnitude | 9.36 | mag |
Transit duration | 0.1162 ( 2.789 ) | day hour |
Transit depth | 1.3 | % |
Time of mid-transit | 2455362.762292 ± 0.000093 | HJD or BJD |
Orbital period | 1.84683510 ± 0.00000020 | days |
Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2021AJ....162..127W |
Quantity | Value | Unit |
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Stellar effective temperature | 6340 ± 90 | K |
Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.161 ± 0.063 | dex |
Stellar mass | 1.11 +0.08 −0.06 | Msun |
Stellar radius | 1.298 +0.053 −0.044 | Rsun |
Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.26 ± 0.04 | c.g.s. |
Stellar mean density | 0.506 +0.026 −0.025 ( 0.714 +0.037 −0.035 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0305 +0.0008 −0.0006 | AU |
Planetary mass | 1.77 +0.11 −0.09 ( 562 +34 −28 ) | Mjup Mearth |
Planetary radius | 1.346 ± 0.063 ( 15.09 ± 0.71 ) | Rjup Rearth |
Planetary surface gravity | 24 ± 2 3.38 ± 0.03 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
Planetary mean density | 0.73 +0.15 −0.14 ( 0.97 +0.20 −0.19 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
Planetary equilibrium temperature | 2020 ± 35 | K |
Reference of detailed study | 2013AJ....146..147M |
Reference | λ (degrees) |
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Simpson et al. (2010) | 15 + 10 - 9 |
Tripathi et al. (2010) | 3.3 + 2.5 - 4.4 |
Miller et al. (2010) | 5 + 6 - 5 |
Oshagh et al. (2013) | 20.0 ± 3.3 |
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