This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-6. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2010ApJ...713L.136D | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2010 / 1 / 5 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 47 20.94 | h m s |
| Declination | +48 14 23.8 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 296.83725 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 48.23994 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.46 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.63 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1502 ( 3.605 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 1.3 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455003.006282 ± 0.000029 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 3.23469940 ± 0.00000035 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2013A+A...560A.112M |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5647 ± 50 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.34 ± 0.05 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.114 +0.158 −0.073 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.261 +0.061 −0.028 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.284 +0.018 −0.012 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.5555 +0.0076 −0.0209 ( 0.784 +0.011 −0.029 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.04438 +0.00197 −0.00096 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.633 +0.061 −0.034 ( 201 +19 −10 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 1.169 +0.056 −0.026 ( 13.10 + 0.63 − 0.29 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 11.48 +0.39 −0.54 3.06 +0.01 −0.02 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.370 +0.015 −0.026 ( 0.491 +0.020 −0.034 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 1451 +15 −13 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2011MNRAS.417.2166S |
Kepler-6 does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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