This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-50b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2013MNRAS.428.1077S | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 8 / 20 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 12 24.21 | h m s |
| Declination | +50 02 01.4 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 288.10087 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 50.03372 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 10.48 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.20 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1768 ( 4.243 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.010 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455005.63186 ± 0.00220 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 7.8125124 ± 0.0000520 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2013MNRAS.428.1077S |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6225 ± 66 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.03 ± 0.06 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.24 ± 0.05 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.58 ± 0.02 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.132 ± 0.005 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.313 ± 0.003 ( 0.4416 ± 0.0042 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | ||
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.077 +0.012 −0.020 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.013 +0.028 −0.013 ( 4.1 +8.9 −4.1 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.153 +0.004 −0.009 ( 1.715 +0.045 −0.101 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2013ApJ...766..101C |
| Reference | λ (degrees) |
|---|---|
| Chaplin et al. (2013) | aligned |
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