This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-102. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | arXiv:1608.04225 | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2016 / 8 / 16 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 22 25 51.45 | h m s |
| Declination | +15 51 24.3 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 336.46438 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 15.85675 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 12.73 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.11 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1459 ( 3.502 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.9 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2457109.45577 ± 0.00017 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 2.709813 ± 0.0000007 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2025AJ....169..334S |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5940 ± 140 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.09 ± 0.19 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.167 ± 0.035 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.331 +0.013 −0.012 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.257 ± 0.006 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.419 +0.017 −0.009 ( 0.591 +0.024 −0.013 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0401 ± 0.0004 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.624 ± 0.045 ( 198 ± 14 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.259 ± 0.016 ( 14.11 ± 0.18 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 8.9 ± 0.6 2.95 ± 0.03 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.311 +0.024 −0.022 ( 0.413 +0.032 −0.029 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1705 ± 32 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2025AJ....169..334S |
WASP-102 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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