This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-60b. 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 15 50.70 | h m s |
| Declination | +42 15 54.0 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 288.96125 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 42.26500 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 14.10 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 12.52 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.1952 ( 4.685 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.01 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454968.9975 ± 0.0079 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 7.13285 ± 0.00010 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2014ApJ...784...45R |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 6024 ± 113 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.02 ± 0.03 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.131 ± 0.082 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.434 ± 0.039 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | c.g.s. | |
| Stellar mean density | 0.377 ± 0.045 ( 0.532 ± 0.063 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.02 ± 0.02 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | AU | |
| Planetary mass | 0.0165 ± 0.0014 ( 5.25 ± 0.45 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.1685 +0.0055 −0.0054 ( 1.889 +0.062 −0.061 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2023A+A...669A.117L |
Kepler-60b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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