Planets Discovered
Five planets have been discovered so far by the TrES project. All have been discovered using the transit method. Note that the discovery papers do not use the "b" suffix typically used in extrasolar planet designations. While forms with and without the b are used in the literature, the table here uses the designations assigned by the discoverers.
| Star | Constellation | Right ascension |
Declination | App. mag. |
Distance | Spectral type |
Planet | Mass |
Radius |
Orbital period |
Semimajor axis |
Orbital eccentricity |
Inclination |
Discovery year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GSC 02652-01324 | Lyra | 19h 04m 09s | +36° 37′ 57″ | 11.79 | 512 | K0V | TrES-1b | 0.61 | 1.081 | 3.030065 | 0.0393 | 0.135 | 88.2 | 2004 |
| GSC 03549-02811 | Draco | 19h 07m 14s | +49° 18′ 59″ | 11.41 | 750 ± 30 | G0V | TrES-2b | 1.199 | 1.272 | 2.47063 | 0.03556 | 0 | 83.62 | 2006 |
| GSC 03089-00929 | Hercules | 17h 52m 07s | +37° 32′ 46″ | 12.4 | 1300 | G | TrES-3 | 1.92 | 1.295 | 1.30619 | 0.0226 | ? | 82.15 | 2007 |
| GSC 02620-00648 | Hercules | 17h 53m 13s | +37° 12′ 42″ | 11.592 | 1400 | F8 | TrES-4 | 0.919 | 1.799 | 3.553945 | 0.05091 | 0 | 82.86 | 2007 |
| GSC 03949-00967 | Cygnus | 20h 20m 53s | +59° 26′ 56″ | 13.718 | 1170 | G | TrES-5 | 1.778 | 1.209 | 1.4822446 | 0.02446 | ? | 84.529 | 2011 |
Read more about this topic: Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
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