This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-436b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2015ApJ...800...99T | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2015 / 1 / 7 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 20 06 52.98 | h m s |
| Declination | +44 24 43.4 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 301.72075 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 44.41206 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 16.24 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 13.33 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.195 ( 4.68 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.11 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455477.6307 ± 0.0042 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 64.00205 ± 0.00072 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2015ApJ...800...99T |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 4651 ± 100 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.01 ± 0.10 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.729 +0.033 −0.029 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.697 +0.028 −0.023 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.619 +0.015 −0.028 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 2.15 +0.17 −0.18 ( 3.03 +0.24 −0.25 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.19 +0.13 −0.11 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.339 +0.134 −0.053 | AU |
| Planetary mass | Mjup Mearth | |
| Planetary radius | 0.244 ± 0.021 ( 2.73 ± 0.24 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2015ApJ...800...99T |
Kepler-436b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
Page generated on 2024/11/22 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)