This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting brown dwarf system CoRoT-3. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2008A+A...491..889D | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2008 / 10 / 6 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | CoRoT | |
| Right ascension | 19 28 13.27 | h m s |
| Declination | +00 07 18.6 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 292.05529 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 0.12183 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.29 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.62 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.153 ( 3.67 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.25 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454283.13388 ± 0.00024 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 4.2567994 ± 0.0000035 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2009A+A...506..377T |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6558 ± 44 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.14 ± 0.04 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.44 ± 0.09 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.66 ± 0.08 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.191 ± 0.046 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.359 ± 0.058 ( 0.507 ± 0.082 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.05783 +0.00110 −0.00049 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 22.3 ± 1.0 ( 70889 ± 3179 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.08 ± 0.05 ( 12.11 ± 0.56 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 506 ± 67 4.70 ± 0.05 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 18.4 ± 3.70 ( 24.4 ± 4.9 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1695 ± 57 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2023MNRAS.519.5177C |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Triaud et al. (2009) | −37.6 + 22.3 - 10.0 |
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