TrES-4 b
Sign in to saveTrES-4b is an exoplanet. It was discovered in 2006, and announced in 2007, by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, using the transit method. At the time of its discovery TrES-4 was the largest confirmed exoplanet ever found; now more than 10 larger planets have been discovered. It is approximately away orbiting the star GSC 02620-00648, in the constellation Hercules.
Key facts
- Planet.name
- TrES-4b
- Planet.image
- TrES-4.jpg
- Planet.caption
- Size comparison of TrES-4 with Jupiter
- Planet.discoverer
- Mandushev et al
- Planet.discovered
- 2006–2007
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- 0
- Planet.period
- 3.553945 ± 0.000075 d
- Planet.inclination
- 82.86 ± 0.33
- Planet.semi amplitude
- 86.1
- Planet.star
- GSC 02620-00648 A
- Planet.surface_grav
- 0.718 ± 0.114 g
- Planet.single_temperature
- (, equilibrium)
via Wikipedia infobox
Exoplanet data
- Host star
- TrES-4
- Discovered
- 2007
- Discovered by
- TrES
- Orbital period
- 3.55 days
- Radius
- 18.05 × Earth
- Mass
- 247.91 × Earth
- Equilibrium temp
- 1778 K
- Distance
- 515.98 pc
via NASA Exoplanet Archive
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Orbit
- Physical characteristics
- See also
- References
- External links
TrES-4b is an exoplanet. It was discovered in 2006, and announced in 2007, by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, using the transit method. At the time of its discovery TrES-4 was the largest confirmed exoplanet ever found; now more than 10 larger planets have been discovered. It is approximately away orbiting the star GSC 02620-00648, in the constellation Hercules.
==Orbit== TrES-4 orbits its primary star every 3.543 days and eclipses it when viewed from Earth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “TrES-4 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.