This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-48b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2013ApJS..208...22X | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 8 / 17 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 56 33.41 | h m s |
| Declination | +40 56 56.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 299.13921 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 40.94903 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.28 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.22 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1183 ( 2.839 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.05 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454957.06247 ± 0.00088 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 4.77800048 ± 0.00000101 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2016ApJS..225....9H |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5194 ± 73 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.17 ± 0.07 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.88 ± 0.06 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.89 ± 0.05 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.487 ± 0.05 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.40 ± 0.09 ( 1.98 ± 0.13 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | AU | |
| Planetary mass | 0.021 ± 0.009 ( 6.7 ± 2.9 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.168 ± 0.009 ( 1.88 ± 0.10 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2014ApJS..210...20M |
Kepler-48b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
Page generated on 2025/03/24 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)