This page summarises the information held within TEPCat for the transiting planetary system Kepler-1659b. Please see here for descriptions of the quantities given below.
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Reference of discovery paper | 2019MNRAS.485.4601P | |
| Date of discovery paper | 2019 / 1 / 7 | y / m / d |
| Data/telescope used for discovery | Kepler | |
| Right ascension | 19 40 44.55 | h m s |
| Declination | +46 47 12.2 | d m s |
| Right ascension (decimal) | 295.18563 | degrees |
| Declination (decimal) | 46.78672 | degrees |
| V-band apparent magnitude | 15.39 | mag |
| K-band apparent magnitude | 12.57 | mag |
| Transit duration | 0.18 ( 4.3 ) | day hour |
| Transit depth | 0.03 | % |
| Time of mid-transit | 2454960.32 ± 0.01 | HJD or BJD |
| Orbital period | 13.6164 ± 0.0001 | days |
| Reference for orbital ephemeris | 2019MNRAS.485.4601P |
| Quantity | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar effective temperature | 5857 +273 −198 | K |
| Stellar metal abundance ([Fe/H] or [M/H]) | +0.07 +0.14 −0.15 | dex |
| Stellar mass | 1.05 +0.13 −0.07 | Msun |
| Stellar radius | 1.07 +0.31 −0.13 | Rsun |
| Stellar logarithmic surface gravity | 4.40 +0.09 −0.19 | c.g.s. |
| Stellar mean density | ρsun g cm-3 | |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.0114 | |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.11229 | AU |
| Planetary mass | 0.0283 ± 0.0009 ( 9.00 ± 0.29 ) | Mjup Mearth |
| Planetary radius | 0.170 ± 0.018 ( 1.91 ± 0.20 ) | Rjup Rearth |
| Planetary surface gravity | m/s2 log(cgs) | |
| Planetary mean density | ρjup g cm-3 | |
| Planetary equilibrium temperature | K | |
| Reference of detailed study | 2019MNRAS.485.4601P |
Kepler-1659b does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements.
Page generated on 2026/01/29 John Southworth (Keele University, UK)