This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-163. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2019AJ....157...43B | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2018 / 7 / 18 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 17 06 08.98 | h m s |
| Declination | −10 24 47.0 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 256.53742 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -10.41306 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 12.54 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 10.15 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.093 ( 2.23 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.6 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2457918.4620 ± 0.0004 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 1.6096884 ± 0.0000015 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2019AJ....157...43B |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5500 ± 200 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.34 ± 0.21 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.97 ± 0.15 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.015 +0.071 −0.0074 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.411 +0.042 −0.040 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.92 +0.13 −0.10 ( 1.30 +0.18 −0.14 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0266 ± 0.0014 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 1.87 ± 0.21 ( 594 ± 66 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.202 ± 0.097 ( 13.5 ± 1.1 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 33.1 +4.0 −3.6 3.52 +0.05 −0.05 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 1.07 +0.23 −0.17 ( 1.42 +0.31 −0.23 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1638 ± 68 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2019AJ....157...43B |
WASP-163 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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