Kepler-88
Kepler-88 is a Sun-like star in the constellation of Lyra, with three confirmed planets. In April 2012, scientists discovered that a Kepler candidate known as KOI-142.01 (Kepler-88b) exhibited very significant transit-timing variations caused by a non-transiting planet.[4] Timing variations were large enough to cause changes to transit durations to Kepler-88b as well. Large transit-timing variations helped to put tight constraints to masses of both planets. The non-transiting planet was further confirmed through the radial velocity method in November 2013.[7]
Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
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Constellation | Lyra |
Right ascension | +19h 24m 35.5431s[1] |
Declination | +40° 40′ 09.8098″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 13.5[2] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | G8IV or B[3] |
Astrometry | |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: 1.114±0.023[1] mas/yr Dec.: 4.963±0.028[1] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 2.6246 ± 0.0140[1] mas |
Distance | 1,243 ± 7 ly (381 ± 2 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | 5.183+0.116 −0.090[4] |
Details | |
Mass | 1.022+0.023 −0.026[4] M☉ |
Radius | 0.961+0.020 −0.024[4] R☉ |
Luminosity | 0.755+0.056 −0.067[4] L☉ |
Surface gravity (log g) | 4.482+0.018 −0.016[4] cgs |
Temperature | 5513 ± 67[4] K |
Metallicity [Fe/H] | +0.37 ± 0.08[4] dex |
Rotation | 30.689±0.383 days[5] |
Age | 2.45+1.20 −0.77[4] Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
KIC | data |
Planetary system
Kepler-88 b is the inner most planet in the system and is Neptune-sized but almost half as dense.
Kepler 88 c is about 60% as massive as Jupiter but its radius is not known due to not transiting the planet.
Kepler-88 d orbits its star every four years, and its orbit is not circular, but elliptical. At three times the mass of Jupiter, it is the most massive.[8] It was discovered based on six years of radial velocity (RV) follow-up from the W. M. Keck Observatory High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer spectrograph.[9] It remains unconfirmed.
Companion (in order from star) |
Mass | Semimajor axis (AU) |
Orbital period (days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
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b | 8.70 M⊕ | 0.098 | ~10.95416 | 0.056 | 89.055° | 3.780 R⊕ |
c | 0.626 MJ | 0.15525 | 22.3395 | 0.056 | 86.2° | — |
d (unconfirmed) | 3.02 MJ | 2.465 | 1414 | 0.432 | — | — |
References
- Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- "Notes on Kepler-88 b". Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- "Kepler-88". Simbad. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
- Nesvorný, David; Kipping, David; Terrell, Dirk; Hartman, Joel; Bakos, Gáspár Á; Buchhave, Lars A (2013). "KOI-142, the King of Transit Variations, is a Pair of Planets Near the 2:1 Resonance". The Astrophysical Journal. 777 (1): 3. arXiv:1304.4283. Bibcode:2013ApJ...777....3N. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/777/1/3. S2CID 59933168.
- 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. arXiv:1308.1845. Bibcode:2013ApJ...775L..11M. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/775/1/L11. S2CID 118557681.
- "Kepler-88". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- SOPHIE velocimetry of kepler transit candidates:X KOI-142c: first radial velocity confirmation of a non-transiting exoplanet discovered by transit timing: S.C.C. Barros (1), R. F. Diaz, A. Santerne, G. Bruno, M. Deleuil, J.M. Almenara, A.S. Bonomo, F. Bouchy, C. Damiani, G. Hebrard, G. Montagnier, C. Moutou (1- Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Marseille)2
- "Newly discovered planetary system". COSPAR Information Bulletin. 2002 (154): 8–9. August 2002. doi:10.1016/s0045-8732(02)80068-7. ISSN 0045-8732.
- Weiss, Lauren M.; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Agol, Eric; Mills, Sean M.; Howard, Andrew W.; Isaacson, Howard; Petigura, Erik A.; Fulton, Benjamin; Hirsch, Lea; Sinukoff, Evan (2020-04-29). "The Discovery of the Long-Period, Eccentric Planet Kepler-88 d and System Characterization with Radial Velocities and Photodynamical Analysis" (PDF). The Astronomical Journal. 159 (5): 242. arXiv:1909.02427. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab88ca. ISSN 1538-3881. S2CID 202539420.