Kepler-24b

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Kepler-24b
Discovery
Discovered by Eric B. Ford et al. [1]
Discovery date25 January 2012
Transit method
Orbital characteristics
0.080 AU (12.0 million km) [1]
8.14511872(4028) [2] d
Star Kepler-24
Physical characteristics
2.02+0.75
−0.30 [3] R🜨
Mass 33.3+10.8
−8.1 [3] M🜨
    Relative sizes of Earth, Kepler-24b and Jupiter Kepler-24 b.jpg
    Relative sizes of Earth, Kepler-24b and Jupiter

    Kepler-24b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-24, located in the constellation Lyra. It was discovered by the Kepler telescope in January 2012. It orbits its parent star at only 0.08 astronomical units away, and at its distance it completes an orbit once every 8.145 days. [1]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 Ford, Eric B.; et al. (2012). "Transit Timing Observations Fromkepler. Ii. Confirmation of Two Multiplanet Systems Via a Non-Parametric Correlation Analysis". The Astrophysical Journal. 750 (2): 113. arXiv: 1201.5409 . Bibcode:2012ApJ...750..113F. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/750/2/113. S2CID   4528963.
    2. ↑ Morton, Timothy D.; et al. (2016). "False Positive Probabilities for All Kepler objects of Interest: 1284 Newly Validated Planets and 428 Likely False Positives". The Astrophysical Journal. 822 (2): 86. arXiv: 1605.02825 . Bibcode:2016ApJ...822...86M. doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/822/2/86 . S2CID   20832201.
    3. 1 2 Hadden, Sam; Lithwick, Yoram (2014). "Densities and Eccentricities of 139Keplerplanets from Transit Time Variations". The Astrophysical Journal. 787 (1): 80. arXiv: 1310.7942 . Bibcode:2014ApJ...787...80H. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/80. S2CID   119097836.


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