This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-85b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2013ApJ...778..110M | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2013 / 8 / 6 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 23 53.62 | h m s |
| Declination | +45 17 25.2 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 290.97342 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 45.29033 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 14.96 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 13.08 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1497 ( 3.593 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.04 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454972.72803 ± 0.00328 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 8.305738 ± 0.000050 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2014ApJ...784...45R |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5505 ± 89 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.03 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.928 ± 0.044 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.875 ± 0.021 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.49 ± 0.15 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.38 ± 0.11 ( 1.95 ± 0.16 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.020 +0.028 −0.016 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.0789 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0058 +0.0019 −0.0015 ( 1.84 +0.60 −0.48 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.1586 ± 0.0045 ( 1.778 ± 0.050 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 814 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2023A+A...669A.117L |
Kepler-85b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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