Kepler-453b
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Template:Planetbox star Template:Planetbox character Template:Planetbox orbit Template:Planetbox discovery Template:Planetbox end Kepler-453b is a transiting circumbinary exoplanet in the binary-star system Kepler-453. It orbits the binary system in the habitable zone every 240.5 days. It also may have a relatively low density. This is due to its mass likely being less than 32 Earth masses.[1][2] The orbit of the planet is inclined relative to the binary orbit therefore precession of the orbit leads to it spending most of its time in a non-transiting configuration. By the time the TESS and PLATO spacecraft are available for follow up observations it will no longer be transiting.[3]
References
- ^ "Kepler-453 b Confirmed Planet Overview Page". NASA Exoplanet Archive. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ^ Welsh, William F.; et al. (2015). "Kepler 453 b - The 10th Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet". The Astrophysical Journal. 809 (1). 26. arXiv:1409.1605. Bibcode:2015ApJ...809...26W. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/26.
- ^ Martin, David V. (2017). "Circumbinary planets - II. When transits come and go". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 465 (3): 3235–3253. arXiv:1611.00526. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.465.3235M. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2851.
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