This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-10c. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2011ApJS..197....5F | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2011 / 5 / 25 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 02 43.06 | h m s |
| Declination | +50 14 28.8 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 285.67942 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 50.24133 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.10 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.50 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.2874 ( 6.898 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.38 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454971.67727 ± 0.00068 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 45.294301 ± 0.000048 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | arXiv:2502.07996 |
| 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 | 0.136 ± 0.050 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.2410 ± 0.0019 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0355 ± 0.0039 ( 11.3 ± 1.2 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.2101 ± 0.0020 ( 2.355 ± 0.022 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 20.0 +2.1 −2.2 3.30 +0.04 −0.05 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 3.58 ± 0.40 ( 4.75 ± 0.53 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 579 ± 4 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | arXiv:2502.07996 |
Kepler-10c does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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