This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-43. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012A+A...538A..96B | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2011 / 10 / 25 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 00 57.81 | h m s |
| Declination | +46 40 05.6 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 285.24088 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 46.66822 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 14.07 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 12.55 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1208 ( 2.899 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.8 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455095.45227 ± 0.00005 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.02409309 ± 0.00000020 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2015A+A...575A..85B |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6041 ± 143 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.33 ± 0.11 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.24 ± 0.11 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.332 ± 0.046 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.281 ± 0.017 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.523 ± 0.022 ( 0.738 ± 0.031 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0440 ± 0.0013 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 3.09 ± 0.21 ( 982 ± 66 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.115 ± 0.041 ( 12.50 ± 0.46 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 61.6 ± 3.3 3.79 ± 0.02 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 2.09 ± 0.16 ( 2.77 ± 0.21 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1603 ± 39 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2015A+A...575A..85B |
Kepler-43 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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