This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-10b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2011ApJ...729...27B | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2011 / 2 / 3 | y / m / d |
| Right ascension | 19 02 43.06 | h m s |
| Declination | +50 14 28.8 | d m s |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.10 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.50 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.07546 ( 1.8110 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.15 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455034.08687 ± 0.00018 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 0.8374907 ± 0.0000002 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2014ApJ...789..154D |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5708 ± 28 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.15 ± 0.04 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.910 ± 0.021 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.065 ± 0.009 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.344 ± 0.004 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.757 ± 0.003 ( 1.0681 ± 0.0042 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.01685 ± 0.00013 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0117 ± 0.0013 ( 3.72 ± 0.41 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.1311 +0.0027 −0.0018 ( 1.469 +0.030 −0.020 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 15.1 +2.2 −2.3 3.18 +0.06 −0.07 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 4.87 ± 0.54 ( 6.46 ± 0.72 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 2169 +96 −44 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2016ApJ...819...83W |
Kepler-10b does not have an entry in the catalogue of Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements.
Kepler-10b has not been analysed as part of the Homogeneous Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets project.
Page generated on 2017/08/07 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)