Q3195372
Sign in to saveKepler-14b is an extrasolar planet in orbit around the primary star of the binary Kepler-14 system. It is currently the only planet known to exist in this star system. Kepler-14b is 8.4 times the mass of Jupiter and has a radius 1.14 times that of Jupiter, and it orbits its host star every 6.79 days. It was discovered by NASA-led Kepler mission, which noted the planet as a planetary candidate as early as March 2009, around the same time as the discovery of the first five planets discovered by Kepler (Kepler-4b to Kepler-8b). However, the team was unable to confirm the planet until extensive fo
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Coordinates
- RA 287.7088° · Dec 47.3330°
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Key facts
- Planet.name
- Kepler-14b
- Planet.discoverer
- L. Buchhave et al.
- Planet.discovery_site
- Kepler spacecraft
- Planet.discovered
- Paper submitted 27 June 2011
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit method
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- 0.035 (± 0.02)
- Planet.period
- d
- Planet.inclination
- 90.0
- Planet.star
- Kepler-14A (KOI-98)
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.136
- Planet.mass
- 8.40
- Planet.density
- 7.1 (± 1.1) g cm−3
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Wikidata facts
Show 13 more facts
- right ascension
- 287.7087924000
- catalog code
- Kepler-14 Ab
- discovery method
- transit method
- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-11-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- declination
- 47.3330212000
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital inclination
- 90
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.035
- temperature
- 1573.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.1
- declination component of proper motion
- -10.6
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0771
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Host star system
- Characteristics
- References
Kepler-14b is an extrasolar planet in orbit around the primary star of the binary Kepler-14 system. It is currently the only planet known to exist in this star system. Kepler-14b is 8.4 times the mass of Jupiter and has a radius 1.14 times that of Jupiter, and it orbits its host star every 6.79 days. It was discovered by NASA-led Kepler mission, which noted the planet as a planetary candidate as early as March 2009, around the same time as the discovery of the first five planets discovered by Kepler (Kepler-4b to Kepler-8b). However, the team was unable to confirm the planet until extensive follow-up observations, as high-resolution imaging resolved the star Kepler-14 as a closely orbiting binary system. The Kepler team would have not noticed that Kepler-14 was a binary star based solely on initial radial velocity measurements (a standard method for confirming a planet's existence), and found that if they had not realized this, their data on Kepler-14b would have been very inaccurate.
==Discovery==
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