This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-160. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2019MNRAS.482..301L | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2018 / 7 / 19 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 05 50 43.06 | h m s |
| Declination | −27 37 23.4 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 87.67942 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -27.62317 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.09 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.06 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.11855 ( 2.8452 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 2.0 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2457383.65494 ± 0.00021 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.7684950 ± 0.0000034 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2019MNRAS.482..301L |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5218 ± 18 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.149 ± 0.020 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.879 +0.022 −0.020 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.872 +0.013 −0.012 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.44 ± 0.05 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.325 +0.068 −0.062 ( 1.870 +0.096 −0.087 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.22 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0455 ± 0.0012 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.281 ± 0.030 ( 89.3 ± 9.5 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.093 +0.022 −0.021 ( 12.25 + 0.25 − 0.24 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 5.82 +0.68 −0.66 2.76 +0.05 −0.05 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.201 +0.024 −0.025 ( 0.267 +0.032 −0.033 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1100 ± 9 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2021AJ....162..291J |
WASP-160 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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