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Kepler-1647 b
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Kepler-1647b (sometimes named Kepler-1647(AB)b to distinguish it from the secondary component) is a circumbinary exoplanet that orbits the binary star system Kepler-1647, located from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It was announced on June 13, 2016, in San Diego at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It was detected using the transit method, when it caused the dimming of the primary star, and then again of the secondary star blended with the primary star eclipse. The first transit of the planet was identified in 2012, but at the time the single event was not enough to rule out
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Vinony's link graph records 67 inbound references to Kepler-1647 b, and connects out to HIP 41378, list of planet types and outer space.
It is catalogued under topics including Circumbinary planets, Cygnus (constellation) and Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 3,961 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 298.1501° · Dec 40.6562°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.name
- Kepler-1647b
- Planet.image
- File:KEPLER 1647 (AB) b.png
- Planet.caption
- Artistic depiction of Kepler-1647b (left) orbiting its parent stars (center).
- Planet.discovery_site
- Kepler Space Observatory
- Planet.discovered
- June 13, 2016
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- 0.0581
- Planet.period
- 1107.6±0.023 d
- Planet.inclination
- ~90.1
- Planet.star
- Kepler-1647
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.06±0.0123
- Planet.mass
- 1.52±0.65
via Wikipedia infobox
Exoplanet data
- Host star
- Kepler-1647
- Discovered
- 2016
- Discovered by
- Kepler
- Orbital period
- 1107.59 days
- Radius
- 11.87 × Earth
- Mass
- 483 × Earth
- Distance
- 1212.45 pc
via NASA Exoplanet Archive
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Radius
- 1.06
- Mass
- 1.52
- Orbital period
- 1107.5923
- Image
- Kepler-16.jpg
Show 16 more facts
- apparent magnitude
- 13.545
- discovery method
- transit method
- catalog code
- KOI-2939 (AB)b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2015-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 298.15008487038625
- declination
- 40.65620628157249
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital inclination
- 90.0972
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0581
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -4.909
- declination component of proper motion
- -7.245
- parallax
- 0.7962
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.7205
- argument of periapsis
- 155.0464
- Commons category
- Kepler-1647 AB b
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Mass and orbit
- Host stars
- Habitability
- See also
- References
- External links
Kepler-1647b (sometimes named Kepler-1647(AB)b to distinguish it from the secondary component) is a circumbinary exoplanet that orbits the binary star system Kepler-1647, located from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It was announced on June 13, 2016, in San Diego at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It was detected using the transit method, when it caused the dimming of the primary star, and then again of the secondary star blended with the primary star eclipse. The first transit of the planet was identified in 2012, but at the time the single event was not enough to rule out contamination, or confirm it as a planet. It was discovered by the analysis of the Kepler light-curve, which showed the planet in transit.
== Characteristics == === Mass and orbit === The exoplanet is a gas giant, similar in size to Jupiter, and has an orbital period of 1107 days. This is the longest transit period of any confirmed transiting Kepler exoplanet discovered yet. It is also the largest circumbinary Kepler planet known. It is times more massive than Earth, and times Jupiter's mass.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-1647 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.