This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-59. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2013A+A...549A.134H | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 11 / 6 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 23 18 29.54 | h m s |
| Declination | +24 53 21.4 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 349.62308 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 24.88928 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.00 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.72 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.102 ( 2.45 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 2.0 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455830.95559 ± 0.00053 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 7.919585 ± 0.000010 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2013A+A...549A.134H |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 4650 ± 150 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.15 ± 0.11 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.719 ± 0.035 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.613 ± 0.044 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.72 ± 0.06 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 3.11 ± 0.64 ( 4.39 ± 0.90 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.100 ± 0.042 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0697 ± 0.0011 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.863 ± 0.045 ( 274 ± 14 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.775 ± 0.068 ( 8.69 ± 0.76 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 33.1 +6.7 −5.6 3.52 +0.08 −0.08 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 1.8 ± 0.5 ( 2.39 ± 0.66 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 670 ± 35 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2013A+A...549A.134H |
WASP-59 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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