Kepler-453b
Appearance
Discovery | |
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Discovery site | Kepler Space Observatory |
Discovery date | 2015 |
Transit | |
Orbital characteristics | |
0.7903 ± 0.0028 AU (118,230,000 ± 420,000 km)[1] | |
Eccentricity | 0.0359±0.0088[1] |
240.503±0.053[1] d | |
Inclination | 89.4429±0.0091 [1] |
Star | Kepler-453 |
Physical characteristics | |
6.204±0.039[1] R🜨 | |
Kepler-453b is a transiting circumbinary exoplanet in the binary-star system Kepler-453. It orbits the binary system in the habitable zone every 240.5 days.[1][2] The orbit of the planet is inclined relative to the binary orbit therefore precession of the orbit leads to it spending most of its time in a non-transiting configuration. By the time the TESS and PLATO spacecraft are available for follow up observations it will no longer be transiting.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Kepler-453 b Confirmed Planet Overview Page". NASA Exoplanet Archive. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ^ Welsh, William F.; et al. (2015). "Kepler 453 b - The 10th Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet". The Astrophysical Journal. 809 (1). 26. arXiv:1409.1605. Bibcode:2015ApJ...809...26W. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/26. S2CID 55158342.
- ^ Martin, David V. (2017). "Circumbinary planets - II. When transits come and go". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 465 (3): 3235–3253. arXiv:1611.00526. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.465.3235M. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2851. S2CID 119187045.