This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-51b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2013MNRAS.428.1077S | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2012 / 8 / 20 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 45 55.15 | h m s |
| Declination | +49 56 15.7 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 296.47979 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 49.93769 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 14.83 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 13.20 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.2408 ( 5.779 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.50 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454992.1109 ± 0.00039 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 45.15396 ± 0.00022 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2024AJ....168..294M |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5670 ± 60 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.05 ± 0.04 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.985 ± 0.012 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.881 ± 0.011 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.7 ± 0.1 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.44 ± 0.06 ( 2.032 ± 0.085 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.03 ± 0.01 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.2514 ± 0.0097 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0116 +0.0059 −0.0050 ( 3.7 +1.9 −1.6 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.615 ± 0.012 ( 6.89 ± 0.13 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | 0.048 ± 0.018 ( 0.064 ± 0.024 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | 543 ± 11 | K |
| Reference of detailed study | 2020AJ....159...57L |
Kepler-51b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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