This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-36c. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012Sci...337..556C | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 6 / 22 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 25 00.04 | h m s |
| Declination | +49 13 54.5 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 291.25017 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 49.23181 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 12.22 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 10.79 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.3096 ( 7.430 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.05 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454955.9132 ± 0.0011 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 16.23855 ± 0.00046 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2012Sci...337..556C |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5911 ± 66 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.20 ± 0.06 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.071 ± 0.043 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.626 ± 0.019 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.045 ± 0.009 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 0.2462 ± 0.0040 ( 0.3474 ± 0.0056 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | ||
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.1283 ± 0.0016 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0247 ± 0.0011 ( 7.85 ± 0.35 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.3283 ± 0.0050 ( 3.680 ± 0.056 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | 5.62 +0.42 −0.28 2.75 +0.03 −0.02 | m/s2 log(cgs) |
| Planetary mean density | 0.67 +0.05 −0.04 ( 0.889 +0.066 −0.053 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 928 ± 10 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2012ApJ...755L..21D |
Kepler-36c does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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