OGLE-TR-113
OGLE-TR-113 (also known as V752 Carinae) is a faint, distant star in the constellation Carina, about 1,930 light-years away. It has an apparent brightness in the V band of about 16 and is a K-type dwarf, cooler and a bit less luminous than the Sun. Because it lies in a crowded region of the sky, it wasn’t particularly notable on its own.
In 2002, the OGLE project detected periodic dips in the star’s light, indicating a transiting planet. After follow-up observations to confirm the signal, the object was established as a planet in 2004 and named OGLE-TR-113b. A transit of the planet across the star is visible in its light curve, including a transit recorded on February 25, 2008.
Key properties: the star’s mass is about 0.78 solar masses and its radius about 0.77 solar radii. Its metallicity is roughly +0.15 dex, and its age is greater than about 0.7 billion years. The distance to the system is around 1,930 light-years.
The planet OGLE-TR-113b is a close-in, transiting exoplanet that causes the regular dips in the star’s brightness observed from Earth.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 18:00 (CET).