This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-42c. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2012ApJ...747..144M | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 1 / 11 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 28 52.57 | h m s |
| Declination | +44 37 09.0 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 292.21904 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 44.61917 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 16.12 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.46 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.019 ( 0.46 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.15 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454964.60346 ± 0.00013 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 0.45328731 ± 0.00000097 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2017AJ....153..267M |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 3258 ± 21 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | −0.50 ± 0.09 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.144 +0.007 −0.006 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.141 ± 0.008 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | c.g.s. | |
| Stellar mean density | 26.8 +1.8 −1.7 ( 37.8 + 2.5 − 2.4 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0 +0.10 −0.0 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | AU | |
| Planetary mass | 0.0 +0.0065 −0.0 ( 0.0 +2.1 −0.0 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.065 ± 0.003 ( 0.729 ± 0.034 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2017AJ....153..267M |
Kepler-42c does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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