Discovery of the transiting planet kepler-5b

  • David G. Koch
  • , William J. Borucki
  • , Jason F. Rowe
  • , Natalie M. Batalha
  • , Timothy M. Brown
  • , Douglas A. Caldwell
  • , John Caldwell
  • , William D. Cochran
  • , Edna Devore
  • , Edward W. Dunham
  • , Andrea K. Dupree
  • , Thomas N. Gautier
  • , John C. Geary
  • , Ron L. Gilliland
  • , Steve B. Howell
  • , Jon M. Jenkins
  • , David W. Latham
  • , Jack J. Lissauer
  • , Geoff W. Marcy
  • , David Morrison
  • Jill Tarter

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Abstract

We present 44 days of high duty cycle, ultra precise photometry of the 13th magnitude star Kepler-5 (KIC 8191672, T eff= 6300 K, log g= 4.1), which exhibits periodic transits with a depth of 0.7%. Detailed modeling of the transit is consistent with a planetary companion with an orbital period of 3.548460 0.000032 days and a radius of 1.431+0.041 -0.052 R J. Follow-up radial velocity measurements with the Keck HIRES spectrograph on nine separate nights demonstrate that the planet is more than twice as massive as Jupiter with a mass of 2.114+0.056 -0.059 M J and a mean density of 0.894 0.079 g cm -3.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)L131-L135
JournalAstrophysical Journal Letters
Volume713
Issue number2 PART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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