Kepler-23b

Kepler-23b

Discovery
Discovered by	Kepler team
Discovery date	30 January 2012
Detection method	Transit (Kepler Mission)
Orbital characteristics
Semi-major axis	0.075 AU (11,200,000 km)
Orbital period (sidereal)	7.106995 d [1]
Star	Kepler-23
Physical characteristics
Mean radius	1.9 R🜨

Kepler-23b is an exoplanet orbiting Kepler-23, located in the Cygnus constellation. The exoplanet was discovered with the Kepler space telescope in January 2012. ^[2]

The planet is bigger than Earth, and its orbit is very close to its parent star. ^[3] Orbital periods are 7.1 days and it presents a semi-major axis 0.099 AU. ^[3]

References

1. Van Eylen, Vincent; Albrecht, Simon (2015), "Eccentricity from Transit Photometry: Small Planets in Kepler Multi-Planet Systems Have Low Eccentricities", The Astrophysical Journal, 808 (2): 126, arXiv: 1505.02814 , Bibcode:2015ApJ...808..126V, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/808/2/126, S2CID   14405731
2. "Planet Kepler-23 b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia . Retrieved 1 May 2014.
3. "Kepler-23b". NASA Ames Research Center. Archived from the original on 3 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2014.

See also

• List of planets discovered by the Kepler spacecraft

the exoplanet is close to the star there is a exoplanet called kepler 23c there too