This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-140. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2017MNRAS.465.3693H | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2016 / 4 / 15 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 04 01 32.53 | h m s |
| Declination | −20 27 03.9 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 60.38554 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -20.45108 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.13 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.17 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.0631 ( 1.514 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.9 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2456912.35143 ± 0.00028 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 2.23598468 ± 0.00000036 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2022AcA....72....1M |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5300 ± 100 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.12 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.90 ± 0.04 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.87 ± 0.04 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.51 ± 0.04 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.38 ± 0.18 ( 1.95 ± 0.25 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0470 ± 0.0035 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0323 ± 0.0005 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 2.44 ± 0.07 ( 775 ± 22 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.27 ± 0.06 ( 14.24 ± 0.67 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 39.1 ± 0.8 3.592 ± 0.009 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 1.19 ± 0.07 ( 1.579 ± 0.093 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1270 ± 25 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2022AN....34324012A |
WASP-140 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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