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Table 2

Derived physical properties for the WASP-20 system.

Parameter Symbol Anderson et al. (2015) Planet transits brighter Planet transits
star (adopted solution) fainter star
Sum of the fractional radii rA + rb 0.1100 ± 0.0036
         
Ratio of the radii k = RbRA 0.1079 ± 0.0011 0.1143 ± 0.0040 0.192 ± 0.014
         
Inclination (°) i 85.56 ± 0.22 86.36 ± 0.33 89.24 ± 0.87
         
Fractional radius of the star rA = RAa 0.1078 ± 0.0027 0.0987 ± 0.0034
         
Fractional radius of the planet rb = Rba 0.01129 ± 0.00046 0.01481 ± 0.00080

Stellar mass (M) MA 1.200 ± 0.041 1.113 ± 0.027 ± 0.021 0.900 ± 0.088
         
Stellar radius (R) RA 1.392 ± 0.044 1.242 ± 0.044 ± 0.008 0.903 ± 0.052
         
Stellar surface gravity (cgs) log gA 4.231 ± 0.020 4.296 ± 0.030 ± 0.003 4.481 ± 0.043
         
Stellar density (ρ) ρA 0.447 ± 0.033 0.581 ± 0.060 1.22 ± 0.17
         
Age (Gyr) τ

Planet mass (MJup) Mb 0.311 ± 0.017 0.396 ± 0.046 ± 0.005 0.998 ± 0.087
         
Planet radius (RJup) Rb 1.462 ± 0.059 1.382 ± 0.057 ± 0.008 1.69 ± 0.11
         
Planet surface gravity (m s−2) gb 2.530 ± 0.036 5.13 ± 0.73 8.7 ± 1.1
         
Planet density (ρJup) ρb 0.099 ± 0.012 0.140 ± 0.024 ± 0.001 0.193 ± 0.034
         
Equilibrium temperature (K) Teq 1379 ± 31 1330 ± 25 1027 ± 52
         
Orbital semimajor axis (au) a 0.0600 ± 0.0007 0.05851 ± 0.00047 ± 0.00036 0.0545 ± 0.0018

Notes. Where two sets of errorbars are given, the first is the statistical uncertainty and the second is the systematic uncertainty.

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