This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-79. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012A+A...547A..61S | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 6 / 7 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 04 25 29.02 | h m s |
| Declination | −30 36 01.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 66.37092 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | -30.60042 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 10.04 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.06 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1661 ( 3.986 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.3 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455545.23906 ± 0.00021 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.6623920 ± 0.0000003 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | arXiv:2312.03319 |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6760 +88 −71 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.03 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.399 +0.075 −0.087 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.564 +0.025 −0.032 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.195 +0.012 −0.013 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.3658 ± 0.0085 ( 0.516 ± 0.012 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.05202 +0.00091 −0.00110 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.842 +0.077 −0.081 ( 267 +24 −25 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.625 +0.026 −0.033 ( 18.21 + 0.29 − 0.37 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 7.90 +0.70 −0.69 2.90 +0.04 −0.04 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.196 +0.018 −0.017 ( 0.260 +0.024 −0.023 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1787 +23 −19 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2026MNRAS.545S2063M |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Addison et al. (2013) | −106 + 19 - 13 |
| Brown et al. (2017) | −95.2 + 0.9 - 1.0 |
| Johnson et al. (2017) | −99.1 + 4.1 - 3.9 |
Page generated on 2026/01/29 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)