TEPCat: Kepler-82b


 

This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-82b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.

 

Discovery and basic observable quantities:
 
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 31 29.61 h m s
Declination +42 57 58.1 d m s
Right ascension (decimal) 292.87337 degrees
Declination (decimal) 42.96614 degrees
V-band apparent magnitude 15.34 mag
K-band apparent magnitude 13.51 mag
Transit duration 0.1666
( 3.998 )
day
hour
Transit depth 0.18 %
Time of mid-transit   2455027.12502 ± 0.00138     HJD or BJD
Orbital period 26.443794 ± 0.000065 days
Reference for orbital ephemeris   2014ApJ...784...45R  

 

Physical properties from the most recent detailed study:
 
Quantity Value Unit
Stellar effective temperature 5409 ± 62 K
Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H])   +0.19 ± 0.04 dex
Stellar mass 0.91 ± 0.03   Msun
Stellar radius 0.898 +0.042 −0.018 Rsun
Stellar logarithmic surface gravity 4.40 +0.07 −0.08 c.g.s.
Stellar mean density 1.25 +0.08 −0.16
( 1.76 +0.11 −0.23 )
ρsun
g cm-3
Orbital eccentricity 0.0033 +0.0019 −0.0017  
Orbital semimajor axis   0.1683 ± 0.0020  AU
Planetary mass 0.044 ± 0.004
( 14.0 ± 1.3 )
Mjup
Mearth
Planetary radius 0.363 +0.021 −0.009
( 4.07 +0.24 −0.10 )
Rjup
Rearth
Planetary surface gravity m/s2
log(cgs)
Planetary mean density 0.74 +0.08 −0.12
( 0.98 +0.11 −0.16 )
ρjup
g cm-3
Planetary equilibrium temperature 569 K
Reference of detailed study 2019A+A...628A.108F  

 

Kepler-82b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.

 


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