This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-9c. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2010Sci...330...51H | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2010 / 8 / 27 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 02 17.76 | h m s |
| Declination | +38 24 03.2 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 285.57400 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 38.40089 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.93 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 12.34 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.17121 ( 4.1090 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.60 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455435.95866 ± 0.00075 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 39.0153 ± 0.00013 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2018AJ....155...73W |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5774 ± 60 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.05 ± 0.07 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.022 +0.029 −0.039 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.958 ± 0.020 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.49 +0.02 −0.03 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.16 +0.08 −0.09 ( 1.64 +0.11 −0.13 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.06799 ± 0.00007 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.2289 ± 0.0022 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0941 +0.0035 −0.0041 ( 29.9 +1.1 −1.3 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.721 ± 0.008 ( 8.082 ± 0.090 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | 0.234 +0.038 −0.045 ( 0.310 +0.050 −0.060 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2019MNRAS.484.3233B |
Kepler-9c does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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