This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-96. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2014MNRAS.440.1982H | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2013 / 10 / 22 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 00 04 11.14 | h m s |
| Declination | −47 21 38.2 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 1.04642 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -47.36061 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 12.19 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 10.91 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1011 ( 2.426 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.4 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2457963.84067 ± 0.00012 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.42525650 ± 0.00000037 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2022MNRAS.515.3037N |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5500 ± 150 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.14 ± 0.19 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.06 ± 0.09 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.05 ± 0.05 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.42 ± 0.02 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.922 ± 0.073 ( 1.30 ± 0.10 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.27 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0453 ± 0.0013 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.48 ± 0.03 ( 152.59 ± 9.54 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.20 ± 0.06 ( 13.45 ± 0.67 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 7.59 +0.73 −0.68 2.88 +0.04 −0.04 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.28 ± 0.04 ( 0.371 ± 0.053 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1285 ± 40 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2014MNRAS.440.1982H |
WASP-96 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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