Astronomy:Kepler-453b

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Short description: Transiting circumbinary exoplanet in the binary system Kepler-453
Kepler-453b
Discovery
Discovery siteKepler Space Observatory
Discovery date2015
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.7903 ± 0.0028 AU (118,230,000 ± 420,000 km)[1]
Eccentricity0.0359±0.0088[1]
Orbital period240.503±0.053[1] d
Inclination89.4429±0.0091 [1]
StarKepler-453
Physical characteristics
Mean radius6.204±0.039[1] R


Kepler-453b is a transiting circumbinary exoplanet in the binary-star system Kepler-453. It orbits the binary system in the habitable zone every 240.5 days.[1][2] The orbit of the planet is inclined relative to the binary orbit therefore precession of the orbit leads to it spending most of its time in a non-transiting configuration. By the time the TESS and PLATO spacecraft are available for follow up observations it will no longer be transiting.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Kepler-453 b Confirmed Planet Overview Page". NASA Exoplanet Archive. http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/DisplayOverview/nph-DisplayOverview?objname=Kepler-453+b&type=CONFIRMED_PLANET. 
  2. Welsh, William F. et al. (2015). "Kepler 453 b - The 10th Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet". The Astrophysical Journal 809 (1): 26. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/26. Bibcode2015ApJ...809...26W. 
  3. Martin, David V. (2017). "Circumbinary planets - II. When transits come and go". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 465 (3): 3235–3253. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2851. Bibcode2017MNRAS.465.3235M.