This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-88b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2013ApJ...777....3N | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2013 / 4 / 14 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 24 35.54 | h m s |
| Declination | +40 40 09.8 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 291.14808 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 40.66939 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 13.27 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 11.45 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.137 ( 3.29 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.15 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454966.0242 ± 0.0013 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 10.954294 ± 0.000104 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2013ApJ...777....3N |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5471 ± 50 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.20 ± 0.08 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 0.956 +0.041 −0.051 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 0.880 +0.033 −0.038 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.528 +0.025 −0.019 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | 1.70 +0.29 −0.28 ( 2.40 +0.41 −0.40 ) | ρsun g cm-3 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.05593 +0.00047 −0.00031 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.05611 +0.00121 −0.00052 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0274 ± 0.0079 ( 8.7 ± 2.5 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.337 +0.033 −0.035 ( 3.78 +0.37 −0.39 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | 0.66 +0.32 −0.23 ( 0.88 +0.42 −0.31 ) | ρjup g cm-3 |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2013ApJ...777....3N |
Kepler-88b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
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