TEPCat: WASP-84b


 

This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-84b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.

 

Discovery and basic observable quantities:
 
Quantity Value Unit
Reference of discovery paper 2014MNRAS.445.1114A  
Date of discovery paper 2013 / 10 / 22 y / m / d
Data/telescope used for discovery WASP  
Right ascension 08 44 25.71 h m s
Declination +01 51 36.0 d m s
Right ascension (decimal) 131.10712 degrees
Declination (decimal) 1.86000 degrees
V-band apparent magnitude 10.83 mag
K-band apparent magnitude 8.86 mag
Transit duration 0.1150
( 2.760 )
day
hour
Transit depth 1.8 %
Time of mid-transit   2457956.71194 ± 0.00011     HJD or BJD
Orbital period 8.52349648 ± 0.00000060 days
Reference for orbital ephemeris   2023MNRAS.525L..43M  

 

Physical properties from the most recent detailed study:
 
Quantity Value Unit
Stellar effective temperature 5280 ± 80 K
Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H])   +0.09 ± 0.12 dex
Stellar mass 0.853 ± 0.058   Msun
Stellar radius 0.768 ± 0.019 Rsun
Stellar logarithmic surface gravity 4.598 ± 0.012 c.g.s.
Stellar mean density 1.882 ± 0.049
( 2.656 ± 0.069 )
ρsun
g cm-3
Orbital eccentricity 0.0 +0.045 −0.0  
Orbital semimajor axis   0.0778 ± 0.0021  AU
Planetary mass 0.692 ± 0.058
( 219 ± 18 )
Mjup
Mearth
Planetary radius 0.956 ± 0.024
( 10.72 ± 0.27 )
Rjup
Rearth
Planetary surface gravity 19.01 ± 0.67
3.28 ± 0.02
m/s2
log(cgs)
Planetary mean density 0.69 ± 0.09
( 0.92 ± 0.12 )
ρjup
g cm-3
Planetary equilibrium temperature 732 ± 12 K
Reference of detailed study 2023MNRAS.525L..43M  

 

Entries in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements:
 
Reference λ (degrees)
Anderson et al. (2015)   −0.3   ±   1.7  

 

 


Page generated on 2025/03/17           John Southworth   (Keele University, UK)