This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-16. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2009ApJ...703..752L | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2009 / 8 / 3 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 14 18 43.92 | h m s |
| Declination | −20 16 31.9 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 214.68300 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -20.27553 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.31 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.59 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.0800 ( 1.920 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.3 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455495.0619 ± 0.0003 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.1186023 ± 0.0000016 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2022ExA....53..547K |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5630 ± 70 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.07 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.980 ± 0.054 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.087 ± 0.042 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.357 ± 0.022 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.762 ± 0.056 ( 1.075 ± 0.079 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.04150 ± 0.00077 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.832 ± 0.038 ( 264 ± 12 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.218 ± 0.040 ( 13.65 ± 0.45 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 13.92 ± 0.71 3.14 ± 0.02 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.431 ± 0.033 ( 0.572 ± 0.044 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1389 ± 24 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2013MNRAS.434.1300S |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Brown et al. (2012) | −4.2 + 11.0 - 13.9 |
| Albrecht et al. (2012) | 11 + 26 - 19 |
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