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Table 1

Adopted values for the orbital and physical parameters of WASP-17 used in the excess light curve approach in this work (Sect. 5).

Parameter Symbol Value
Mid-transit time T0 (HJDUTC) 2454577.85806 ± 0.00027
Orbital Period P (days) 3.7354380 ± 0.0000068
Transit duration T14 (days) 0.1830 ± 0.0017
Ingress/egress duration T12 = T34 (days) 0.0247 ± 0.0017
Orbital inclination i (°) 86.83 ± 0.62
Semi-major axis a (au) 0.05150 ± 0.00034
Planet mass Mp (MJup) 0.486 ± 0.032
Planet radius Rp (RJup) 1.991 ± 0.081
Planet surface gravity log gP (cgs) 2.448 ± 0.042
Stellar effective temperature Teff (K) 6650 ± 80
Stellar surface gravity log g (dex) 4.161 ± 0.026
Metallicity [Fe/H] −0.19 ± 0.09
Stellar radius RS (R) 1.572 ± 0.056
Projected stellar rotation velocity vsin(i) (kms−1) 10.05 ± 0.88
Planet to star area ratio (RP/RS)2 0.01696 ± 0.00026

Notes. For consistency with Zhou & Bayliss (2012), all values are taken from Anderson et al. (2011).

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