This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-24. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2010ApJ...720..337S | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2010 / 8 / 16 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 15 08 51.74 | h m s |
| Declination | +02 20 35.8 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 227.21558 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 2.34328 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.23 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 10.15 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.11364 ( 2.7274 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.1 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454945.589444 ± 0.000090 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 2.341221877 ± 0.00000030 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2017MNRAS.472.3871T |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6107 ± 77 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.02 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.168 ± 0.075 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.317 ± 0.041 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.267 ± 0.022 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.512 ± 0.034 ( 0.722 ± 0.048 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.0388 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.03635 ± 0.00078 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 1.109 ± 0.054 ( 352 ± 17 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.303 ± 0.047 ( 14.61 ± 0.53 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 16.19 ± 0.99 3.21 ± 0.03 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.469 ± 0.042 ( 0.622 ± 0.056 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1772 ± 29 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2014MNRAS.444..776S |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Simpson et al. (2011) | −4.7 ± 4.0 |
| Smith et al. (2012) | −5.8 ± 4.1 |
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