This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-15. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2011ApJS..197...13E | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2011 / 7 / 14 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 44 48.14 | h m s |
| Declination | +49 08 24.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 296.20058 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 49.14014 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.91 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 12.22 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.15 ( 3.6 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.2 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455097.841168 ± 0.000060 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 4.9427809 ± 0.0000014 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2013A+A...560A.112M |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5595 ± 120 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.36 ± 0.07 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.08 ± 0.13 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.253 ± 0.051 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.275 ± 0.018 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.548 ± 0.008 ( 0.773 ± 0.011 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0583 ± 0.0023 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.696 ± 0.099 ( 221 ± 31 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.289 ± 0.054 ( 14.45 ± 0.61 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 10.4 ± 1.1 3.02 ± 0.04 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.304 ± 0.036 ( 0.403 ± 0.048 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1251 ± 27 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2012MNRAS.426.1291S |
Kepler-15 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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