Discovery Method
Transit
Consistent across records
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WASP-31 b
Host star WASP-31 • 17.36 R⊕ • 3.41 d orbit
Records
10
archive rows
Discovery
2010
Transit
Radius
17.36 R⊕
default parameter set
Mass
151.9 M⊕
default parameter set
WASP-31
temperature unconstrained
Canonical Summary
Adopted planet values from the default parameter set
Values come from the archive's default parameter set. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.
Selected source: Anderson et al. 2011
Host Star
WASP-31
Stable across source rows
Discovery Year
2010
Stable across source rows
Orbital Period
3.41 day
3.40 to 3.41
Semi-Major Axis
0.05 au
0.05 to 0.05
Radius
17.36 Rearth
17.23 to 17.37
Mass
151.9 Mearth
151.9 to 155.4
Density
0.17 g/cm**3
0.16 to 0.17
Scale Comparison
Radius against familiar reference worlds
Current adopted radius: 17.36 R⊕ • circles scaled linearly by radius
Earth
1.0 R⊕ baseline
WASP-31 b
17.36 R⊕
Jupiter
11.2 R⊕ reference
Provenance
Underlying measurements and references
Evidence Summary
Rows
10
Refs
10
Methods
1
Discoverystable
Facilitystable
Perioddisputed
Radiusdisputed
Massdisputed
Eq. Tempdisputed
| Year | Method | Facility | Telescope | Period | Radius | Mass | Eq. Temp | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.41 day | 17.23 Rearth | 151.9 Mearth | — | Brown et al. 2012 |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.41 day | 17.36 Rearth | 151.9 Mearth | — | Anderson et al. 2011 |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.41 day | — | — | — | Patel & Espinoza 2022 |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.41 day | 17.29 Rearth | — | 1423.7 K | ExoFOP |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | — | — | — | 1575 K | Barstow et al. 2017 |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.41 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2022 |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.41 day | — | — | — | Ivshina & Winn 2022 |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.40 day | 17.37 Rearth | 152.6 Mearth | 1580 K | Sing et al. 2016 |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.41 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2023 |
| 2010 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 3.41 day | 17.36 Rearth | 155.4 Mearth | — | Bonomo et al. 2017 |