Kepler-160

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Kepler-160
Observation data
Epoch J2000       Equinox J2000
Constellation Lyra
Right ascension 19h 11m 05.6526s [1]
Declination +42° 52′ 09.4725″ [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)13.101
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage G2V
J−H color index 0.359
J−K color index 0.408
Variable type ROT, Planetary transit
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ)RA: 3.476±0.032 [1]   mas/yr
Dec.: -5.212±0.035 [1]   mas/yr
Parallax (π)1.0385 ± 0.0183  mas
Distance 3,140 ± 60  ly
(960 ± 20  pc)
Details
Radius 1.118+0.015
−0.045 [2]   R☉
Luminosity 1.01±0.05 [2]   L☉
Surface gravity (log g)4.515 [3]   cgs
Temperature 5471+115
−37 [2]   K
Metallicity [Fe/H]-0.361  dex
Other designations
Gaia DR2  2102587087846067712, KOI-456, KIC  7269974, 2MASS J19110565+4252094 [1]
Database references
SIMBAD data
KIC data

Kepler-160 is a main-sequence star approximately the width of our Galactic arm away in the constellation Lyra, first studied in detail by the Kepler Mission, a NASA-led operation tasked with discovering terrestrial planets. The star, which is very similar to the Sun in mass and radius, [3] [2] has three confirmed planets and one unconfirmed planet orbiting it.

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Characteristics

The star Kepler-160 is rather old, having no detectable circumstellar disk. [4] The star's metallicity is unknown, with conflicting values of either 40% or 160% of solar metallicity reported. [5] [6]

Of this system (and all others) the Breakthrough Listen search for extraterrestrial intelligence found no potential technosignatures. [7]

Planetary system

The two planetary candidates in the Kepler-160 system were discovered in 2010, published in early 2011 [8] and confirmed in 2014. [9] The planets Kepler-160b and Kepler-160c are not in orbital resonance despite their orbital periods ratio being close to 1:3. [10]

An additional rocky transiting planet candidate KOI-456.04, located in the habitable zone, was detected in 2020, [2] and more non-transiting planets are suspected due to residuals in the solution for the transit timing variations. From what researchers can tell, KOI-456.04 looks to be less than twice the size of Earth and is apparently orbiting Kepler-160 at about the same distance from Earth to the sun (one complete orbit is 378 days). Perhaps most important, it receives about 93% as much light as Earth gets from the sun. [11] Nontransiting planet candidate Kepler-160d has a mass between about 1 and 100 Earth masses and an orbital period between about 7 and 50 d. [2]

The Kepler-160 planetary system [2]
Companion
(in order from star)		 Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)		 Orbital period
(days)		 Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b—0.05511+0.0019
−0.0037		4.309397+0.000013
−0.000012		0—1.715+0.061
−0.047  R🜨
c—0.1192+0.004
−0.008		13.699429±0.0000180—3.76+0.23
−0.09  R🜨
d1—100  M🜨 —7—50———
e(unconfirmed)—1.089+0.037
−0.073		378.417+0.028
−0.025		0—1.91+0.17
−0.14  R⊕

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