This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-61. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012MNRAS.426..739H | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 4 / 24 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 05 01 11.91 | h m s |
| Declination | −26 03 14.9 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 75.29962 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -26.05414 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 12.50 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.01 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1642 ( 3.941 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.0 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2456075.4585 ± 0.0005 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.855898 ± 0.000003 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2017MNRAS.464..810B |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6250 ± 150 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.10 ± 0.12 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.27 ± 0.06 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.39 ± 0.03 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.256 +0.009 −0.013 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.476 +0.007 −0.020 ( 0.6716 +0.0099 −0.0282 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.26 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0521 ± 0.0008 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 2.06 ± 0.16 ( 654 ± 50 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.22 ± 0.03 ( 13.67 ± 0.34 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 32.3 +2.3 −2.6 3.51 +0.03 −0.04 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 1.17 +0.09 −0.10 ( 1.55 +0.12 −0.13 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1624 +21 −15 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2017MNRAS.464..810B |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Brown et al. (2017) | 4.0 + 17.1 - 18.4 |
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