This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-96. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2014ApJS..210...20M | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2014 / 1 / 20 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 48 16.71 | h m s |
| Declination | +40 31 30.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 297.06963 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 40.52514 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 10.43 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 8.87 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.161 ( 3.86 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.065 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454955.30130 ± 0.00018 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 16.2384600 ± 0.0000057 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2021MNRAS.503.4092B |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5690 ± 73 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.04 ± 0.07 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.00 ± 0.06 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.02 ± 0.09 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.421 ± 0.08 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.09 ± 0.18 ( 1.54 ± 0.25 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | AU | |
| Planetary mass | 0.027 ± 0.011 ( 8.6 ± 3.5 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.238 ± 0.020 ( 2.67 ± 0.22 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | 1.70 ± 0.84 ( 2.3 ± 1.1 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2014ApJS..210...20M |
Kepler-96 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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