This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-13. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012A+A...541A..56M | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2011 / 10 / 17 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 07 53.11 | h m s |
| Declination | +46 52 06.0 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 286.97129 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 46.86833 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 9.95 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.43 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1319 ( 3.166 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.46 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454953.56596 ± 0.00004 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 1.763587500 ± 0.000000021 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2021MNRAS.503.4092B |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 7650 ± 250 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.2 ± 0.2 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.72 ± 0.10 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.71 ± 0.04 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.2 ± 0.5 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.38 ± 0.01 ( 0.536 ± 0.014 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | ||
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.04889 +0.00060 −0.00120 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 6 ± 3 ( 19073 ± 9537 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.406 ± 0.038 ( 15.76 ± 0.43 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 82 ± 20 3.91 ± 0.09 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 2750 ± 160 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2014ApJ...788...92S |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Barnes et al. (2011) | 23 ± 4 |
| Johnson et al. (2014) | 58.6 ± 2 |
| Masuda (2015) | 58.6 ± 2 |
| Howarth & Morello (2017) | 59.20 ± 0.05 |
| Herman et al. (2018) | −27.9 ± 1.1 |
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