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Also known as Kepler-34ABb

Kepler-34b (formally Kepler-34(AB)b) is a circumbinary planet announced with Kepler-35b. It is a small gas giant that orbits every ~288 days around two stars. Despite the planet's relatively long orbital period, its existence could be confirmed quickly due to transiting both of its host stars.

Key facts

Planet.name
Kepler-34b
Planet.discovered
01-11-2012
Planet.discovery_method
Transit (Kepler Mission)
Planet.epoch
BJD 2454969.2000
Planet.apsis
astron
Planet.eccentricity
0.182
Planet.period
288.822 d
Planet.inclination
90.355
Planet.asc_node
−1.74
Planet.long_periastron
106.5
Planet.star
Kepler-34
Planet.mean_radius
0.764 8.56
Planet.mass
0.220 (69.9 )
Planet.density
0.613 g cm−3
Planet.surface_grav
936 m/s²
Planet.single_temperature
323

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Wikidata facts

Radius
0.7637
Mass
0.22
Orbital period
288.822
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catalog code
TIC 272369124b
time of discovery or invention
2012-01-00
right ascension
296.43582304613290
declination
44.64155901507528
parallax
0.5273
orbital inclination
90.355
orbital eccentricity
0.182
right ascension component of proper motion
-3.452
declination component of proper motion
-5.125
semi-major axis of an orbit
1.0896
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Kepler-34b (formally Kepler-34(AB)b) is a circumbinary planet announced with Kepler-35b. It is a small gas giant that orbits every ~288 days around two stars. Despite the planet's relatively long orbital period, its existence could be confirmed quickly due to transiting both of its host stars.

Kepler-34b was unlikely to form at its current orbit, and likely migrated early from its birth orbit beyond 1.5 AU away from its parent binary stars, suffering multiple giant impacts in the process. The eccentricity of its planetary orbit might have been acquired on the last stage of migration, due to interaction with the residual debris disk, or by ejection of a second planet.

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