Discovery Method
Transit
Consistent across records
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WASP-76 b
Host star WASP-76 • 20.78 R⊕ • 1.81 d orbit
Records
10
archive rows
Discovery
2016
Transit
Radius
20.78 R⊕
default parameter set
Mass
284.1 M⊕
default parameter set
WASP-76
2228 K equilibrium
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: Ehrenreich et al. 2020
Host Star
WASP-76
Stable across source rows
Discovery Year
2016
Stable across source rows
Orbital Period
1.81 day
1.81 to 1.81
Semi-Major Axis
0.03 au
0.03 to 0.03
Radius
20.78 Rearth
19.39 to 21.96
Mass
284.1 Mearth
276.5 to 292.4
Density
0.17 g/cm**3
0.17 to 0.23
Equilibrium Temperature
2228 K
2153.6 to 2231
Scale Comparison
Radius against familiar reference worlds
Current adopted radius: 20.78 R⊕ • circles scaled linearly by radius
Earth
1.0 R⊕ baseline
WASP-76 b
20.78 R⊕
Jupiter
11.2 R⊕ reference
Provenance
Underlying measurements and references
Evidence Summary
Rows
10
Refs
10
Methods
1
Discoverystable
Facilitystable
Periodstable
Radiusdisputed
Massdisputed
Eq. Tempdisputed
| Year | Method | Facility | Telescope | Period | Radius | Mass | Eq. Temp | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | 21.96 Rearth | — | 2159.4 K | ExoFOP |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | — | — | — | Ivshina & Winn 2022 |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | 20.68 Rearth | 289.2 Mearth | 2231 K | Fu et al. 2021 |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | — | — | — | Demangeon et al. 2024 |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | 20.78 Rearth | 284.1 Mearth | 2228 K | Ehrenreich et al. 2020 |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | 19.39 Rearth | 276.5 Mearth | 2153.6 K | Brown et al. 2017 |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | — | 20.51 Rearth | — | 2182 K | Alexoudi 2022 |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | 20.51 Rearth | 292.4 Mearth | 2160 K | West et al. 2016 |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2022 |
| 2016 | Transit | SuperWASP | Canon 200mm f/1.8L | 1.81 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2023 |