This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system CoRoT-7. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2009A+A...506..287L | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2009 / 8 / 3 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | CoRoT | |
| Right ascension | 06 43 49.47 | h m s |
| Declination | −01 03 46.9 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 100.95613 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -1.06303 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.72 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.81 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.04413 ( 1.0591 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.034 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454398.07756 ± 0.00059 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 0.85359159 ± 0.00000057 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2014A+A...569A..74B |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5313 ± 73 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.03 ± 0.07 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.884 +0.029 −0.032 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.8389 +0.0093 −0.0088 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.573 ± 0.011 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.49 +0.12 −0.13 ( 2.10 +0.17 −0.18 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.32 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.01702 +0.00017 −0.00004 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0191 ± 0.0020 ( 6.07 ± 0.64 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.141 ± 0.009 ( 1.58 ± 0.10 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 21.5 +3.5 −3.0 3.33 +0.07 −0.07 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 4.9 +2.1 −2.3 ( 6.5 +2.8 −3.1 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1756 ± 27 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2022MNRAS.515.3975J |
CoRoT-7 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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