This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-79. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012A+A...547A..61S | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 6 / 7 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 04 25 29.02 | h m s |
| Declination | −30 36 01.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 66.37092 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -30.60042 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 10.04 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.06 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1661 ( 3.986 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.3 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455545.23906 ± 0.00021 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.6623920 ± 0.0000003 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | arXiv:2312.03319 |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6600 ± 100 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.03 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.39 ± 0.08 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.51 +0.04 −0.03 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.226 ± 0.010 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.408 ± 0.012 ( 0.576 ± 0.017 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0519 ± 0.0008 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.86 ± 0.08 ( 273 ± 25 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.53 ± 0.04 ( 17.15 ± 0.45 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 8.39 ± 0.74 2.92 ± 0.04 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.240 ± 0.023 ( 0.318 ± 0.031 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1716 +26 −24 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2017MNRAS.464..810B |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Addison et al. (2013) | −106 + 19 - 13 |
| Brown et al. (2017) | −95.2 + 0.9 - 1.0 |
| Johnson et al. (2017) | −99.1 + 4.1 - 3.9 |
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