This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting system Kepler-27b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012MNRAS.421.2342S | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 1 / 27 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 28 56.82 | h m s |
| Declination | +41 05 09.2 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 292.23675 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 41.08589 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 16.06 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 14.11 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1476 ( 3.542 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.30 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2455007.00037 ± 0.00101 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 15.335381 ± 0.000028 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2014ApJ...784...45R |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5399 ± 84 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | 0.41 ± 0.07 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.000 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.890 ± 0.037 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.540 ± 0.200 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 2.002 ± 0.207 ( 2.82 ± 0.29 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | ||
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.118 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0 +9.11 −0.0 ( 0 +2895 −0 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.423 ± 0.019 ( 4.74 ± 0.21 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2014ApJ...784...45R |
Kepler-27b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
Page generated on 2025/08/27 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)