Astronomy:Kepler-67

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Short description: G-type star located in the open cluster NGC 6811 in the constellation Cygnus
Kepler-67
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Cygnus
Right ascension  19h 36m 36.8092s[1]
Declination +46° 09′ 59.166″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 16.4
Characteristics
Spectral type G9V
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: −3.424±0.093[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −8.679±0.077[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)0.8580 ± 0.0508[1] mas
Distance3,800 ± 200 ly
(1,170 ± 70 pc)
Details
Mass0.865 ± 0.034 M
Radius0.778 ± 0.031 R
Temperature5331 ± 63 K K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.012 ± 0.003 dex
Rotation10.464±0.014 days[2]
Age1 ± 0.17 Gyr
Other designations
KOI-2115[3]
Database references
SIMBADdata
Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopaedia
data

Kepler-67 is a star in the open cluster NGC 6811[4] in the constellation Cygnus. It has slightly less mass than the Sun and has one confirmed planet, slightly smaller than Neptune, announced in 2013.[5]

Planetary system

The Kepler-67 planetary system
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b 0.31 ± 0.06 MJ 0.1171 ± 0.0015 15.7259 ± 0.00011 0.26 ± 0.014 RJ

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. McQuillan, A.; Mazeh, T.; Aigrain, S. (2013). "Stellar Rotation Periods of The Kepler objects of Interest: A Dearth of Close-In Planets Around Fast Rotators". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 775 (1): L11. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/775/1/L11. Bibcode2013ApJ...775L..11M. 
  3. "Kepler-67". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=Kepler-67. 
  4. Maliuk, A.; Budaj, J. (2020), "Spatial distribution of exoplanet candidates based on Kepler and Gaia data", Astronomy & Astrophysics 635: A191, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936692, Bibcode2020A&A...635A.191M 
  5. Meibom, Søren; Torres, Guillermo; Fressin, Francois; Latham, David W.; Rowe, Jason F.; Ciardi, David R.; Bryson, Steven T.; Rogers, Leslie A. et al. (2013). "The same frequency of planets inside and outside open clusters of stars". Nature 499 (7456): 55–58. doi:10.1038/nature12279. PMID 23803764. Bibcode2013Natur.499...55M. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12279. 

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