Astronomy:Kepler-447b
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Short description: Hot gas giant similar to Jupiter in composition
| Discovery | |
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| Discovered by | Kepler Spacecraft |
| Discovery date | 2015 |
| Primary Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.0769 - 0.0062 + 0.0079 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.12 ± 0.04 |
| Orbital period | 7.79430132 ± 1.82e-06 d |
| Inclination | 86.55 - 0.24 + 0.32 |
| Star | Kepler-447 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mean radius | 1.65 ± 0.59 |♃|J}}}}}} |
| Mass | 1.37 ± 0.48 |♃|J}}}}}} |
Kepler-447b is a confirmed exoplanet. The planet's mass and radius indicate that it is a gas giant with a bulk composition similar to that of Jupiter. Unlike Jupiter, but similar to many planets detected around other stars, Kepler-447b is located very close to its star, and belongs to the class of planets known as hot Jupiters. It has an extremely grazing transit, a property that could be used to detect further properties such as perturbations of the orbit due to other nearby objects or stellar pulsations.[1]
References
- ↑ Lillo-Box, J. et al. (2015). "Kepler-447b: a hot-Jupiter with an extremely grazing transit". Astronomy and Astrophysics 577: A105. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201425428. Bibcode: 2015A&A...577A.105L. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2015/05/aa25428-14/aa25428-14.html.
External links
- Kepler-447b at NASA's Kepler project
- Kepler-447 b at the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
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