This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-82. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2016A+A...585A.126W | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2013 / 10 / 22 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 04 50 38.56 | h m s |
| Declination | +01 53 38.1 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 72.66067 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 1.89392 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 10.08 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 8.76 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.2081 ( 4.994 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.5 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2458447.08368 ± 0.00040 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 2.7057831 ± 0.0000016 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2020AJ....160..155W |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6500 ± 80 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.12 ± 0.11 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.635 ± 0.079 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 2.219 +0.097 −0.076 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 3.958 ± 0.026 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.149 ± 0.015 ( 0.210 ± 0.021 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.053 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.04477 ± 0.00072 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 1.248 ± 0.045 ( 396 ± 14 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.712 +0.088 −0.069 ( 19.19 + 0.99 − 0.77 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 9.75 +0.72 −0.82 2.99 +0.03 −0.04 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.249 ± 0.030 ( 0.330 ± 0.040 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 2202 ± 45 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2015AcA....65..117S |
WASP-82 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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