This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-172. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2019MNRAS.482.1379H | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2018 / 3 / 7 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 13 17 44.12 | h m s |
| Declination | −47 14 15.3 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 199.43383 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -47.23758 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.09 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 10.13 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.2206 ( 5.294 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.7 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2457032.2617 ± 0.0005 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 5.477433 ± 0.000007 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2019MNRAS.482.1379H |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6900 ± 150 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.10 ± 0.08 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.49 ± 0.07 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.91 ± 0.10 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.05 ± 0.05 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.21 ± 0.04 ( 0.296 ± 0.056 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.28 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0694 ± 0.0011 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.47 ± 0.10 ( 149 ± 31 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.57 ± 0.10 ( 17.6 ± 1.1 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 4.4 +1.3 −1.0 2.6 +0.1 −0.1 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.12 ± 0.04 ( 0.159 ± 0.053 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1740 ± 60 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2019MNRAS.482.1379H |
WASP-172 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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