This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-10b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2011ApJ...729...27B | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2011 / 2 / 3 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 02 43.06 | h m s |
| Declination | +50 14 28.8 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 285.67942 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 50.24133 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 11.10 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 9.50 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.07546 ( 1.8110 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.15 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455034.08687 ± 0.00018 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 0.8374907 ± 0.0000002 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2014ApJ...789..154D |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5708 ± 28 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.15 ± 0.04 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.910 ± 0.021 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.065 ± 0.009 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.344 ± 0.004 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.757 ± 0.003 ( 1.0681 ± 0.0042 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.01685 ± 0.00013 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0102 ± 0.0010 ( 3.24 ± 0.32 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.1311 +0.0027 −0.0018 ( 1.469 +0.030 −0.020 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 14.6 +1.3 −1.5 3.16 +0.04 −0.05 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 4.18 +0.50 −0.47 ( 5.54 +0.66 −0.62 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 2188 ± 16 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2025A+A...696A.233B |
Kepler-10b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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