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Useful Parameters and Constants: Vincent Van Eylen (Vincent@phys - Au.dk) Exoplanets 2013

This document defines useful physical constants and parameters including: - The speed of light in a vacuum and in air - Masses and radii of astronomical bodies like the Sun, Earth, Jupiter, and the Moon - Astronomical units like the astronomical unit, parsec, and light year - Fundamental physical constants like the Planck constant, Boltzmann constant, and gravitational constant - Conversion factors between masses and radii of the Sun, Earth, and Jupiter.

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Useful Parameters and Constants: Vincent Van Eylen (Vincent@phys - Au.dk) Exoplanets 2013

This document defines useful physical constants and parameters including: - The speed of light in a vacuum and in air - Masses and radii of astronomical bodies like the Sun, Earth, Jupiter, and the Moon - Astronomical units like the astronomical unit, parsec, and light year - Fundamental physical constants like the Planck constant, Boltzmann constant, and gravitational constant - Conversion factors between masses and radii of the Sun, Earth, and Jupiter.

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Useful parameters and constants

Name Value Description Units


cc 299792458.0 speed of light m/s
cc(air) cc/1.0002773 speed of light in air m/s
Msol 1.988547e30 solar mass kg
Rsol 6.95508e8 solar radius m
Lsol 3.846e26 solar luminosity W
Tsol 5779.5747 solar effective temperature K
agesol 1.44221e+17 solar age s
Mearth 5.9742e24 earth mass kg
Rearth 6371.e3 earth radius m
Mjup 1.8986e27 Jupiter mass kg
Rjup 6.9911e7 Jupiter radius m
Mlun 7.346e22 Lunar mass kg
au 149597870700.0 astronomical unit m
pc 3.085677581503e+16 parsec m
ly 9.460730472580800e+15 light year m
hh 6.6260689633e-34 Planck constant J/s
hhbar 1.05457162853e-34 reduced Planck constant J/s
kB 1.380650424e-23 Boltzmann constant J/K
NA 6.0221417930e23 Avogadro constant 1/mol
sigma 5.67040040e-8 Stefan-Boltzmann constant W/m2/K4
GG 6.67384e-11 gravitational constant m3/kg/s2
GGMsol 1.32712442099e20 grav. constant x solar mass m3/s2
RR 8.31447215 (ideal) gas constant J/K/mol
aa 7.5657e-16 radiation constant J/m3/K4
a0 52.9177e-12 Bohr radius of hydrogen m
ke 8.9875517873681764e9 Coulomb constant Nm2/C2
eps0 8.854187817620e-12 Electric constant F/m
mu0 1.2566370614e-6 Magnetic constant N/A2
alpha 137.036 Fine structure constant none
me 9.1093829140e-31 Electron mass kg
qe -1.60217656535e-19 Electron charge C
mp 1.67262177774e-27 Proton mass kg
qp 1.60217656535e-19 Proton charge C

Msol 1047.38 Mass Sun to Mass Jup Mjup


Mjup 317.80 Mass Jup to Mass Earth Mearth
Mearth 0.003147 Mass Earth to Mass Jup Mjup
Rsol 9.948 Radius Sun to Radius Jup Rjup
Rjup 10.97 Radius Jup to Radius Earth Rearth
Rearth 0.0911 Radius Earth to Radius Jup Rjup
Deg π/180 = 0.01745 Degree to radians (rad)

Based on http://www.phoebe-project.org/2.0/docs/phoebe.units.html

Vincent Van Eylen ([email protected]) Exoplanets 2013

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