This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-62. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012MNRAS.426..739H | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 4 / 24 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 05 48 33.59 | h m s |
| Declination | −63 59 18.3 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 87.13996 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -63.98842 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 10.22 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 8.94 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1588 ( 3.811 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.4 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2458326.078712 ± 0.000035 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 4.41193811 ± 0.00000015 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2024ApJS..274...13S |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6230 ± 80 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.04 ± 0.06 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.25 ± 0.05 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.237 +0.015 −0.026 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.316 ± 0.025 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.59 ± 0.06 ( 0.832 ± 0.085 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.21 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0567 ± 0.0007 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.57 ± 0.04 ( 181 ± 12 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.39 ± 0.06 ( 15.58 ± 0.67 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 7.35 +0.52 −0.70 2.87 +0.03 −0.04 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.222 +0.017 −0.021 ( 0.294 +0.023 −0.028 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1443 +32 −23 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2026MNRAS.545S2063M |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Brown et al. (2017) | 19.4 + 5.1 - 4.9 |
| Kabath et al. (2025) | 23 + 22 - 33 |
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