This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system WASP-176. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2020AJ....159..255C | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2020 / 4 / 15 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | WASP | |
| Right ascension | 20 54 44.94 | h m s |
| Declination | +09 10 44.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 313.68725 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 9.17903 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 12.01 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 10.64 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.2147 ( 5.153 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.8 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2458234.1771 ± 0.0007 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.899052 ± 0.000005 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2020AJ....159..255C |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6100 ± 100 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.15 ± 0.08 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.345 +0.08 −0.13 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.925 +0.047 −0.044 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 3.995 +0.037 −0.053 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.263 +0.030 −0.032 ( 0.371 +0.042 −0.045 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0535 +0.0010 −0.0019 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.855 +0.072 −0.069 ( 271 +22 −21 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.505 +0.050 −0.045 ( 16.87 + 0.56 − 0.50 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 9.4 ± 1.1 2.97 ± 0.05 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.234 ± 0.032 ( 0.310 ± 0.042 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1721 +28 −21 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2020AJ....159..255C |
WASP-176 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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