This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-46b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012Sci...336.1133N | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 8 / 7 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 17 04.50 | h m s |
| Declination | +42 36 15.0 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 289.26875 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 42.60417 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 15.49 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 13.35 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1828 ( 4.387 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.8 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455053.2826 ± 0.0014 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 33.60134 ± 0.00021 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2012Sci...336.1133N |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5155 ± 105 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.41 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.902 +0.040 −0.038 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.938 +0.038 −0.039 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.447 +0.040 −0.035 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.08 +0.16 −0.12 ( 1.52 +0.23 −0.17 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0321 +0.0069 −0.0078 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.1971 ± 0.0001 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.885 +0.374 −0.343 ( 281 +118 −109 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.810 +0.035 −0.036 ( 9.08 +0.39 −0.40 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | 1.56 +0.69 −0.85 ( 2.07 +0.92 −1.13 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 543 ± 16 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2017AJ....153..198S |
Kepler-46b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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