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Edasich dK star
Number of posts : 2289 Location : Tau Ceti g - Mid Latitudes Registration date : 2008-06-02
| Subject: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 3:33 am | |
| *edit* Very short-period hot Earth? Transits and occultations of an Earth-sized planet in an 8.5-hour orbit - Quote :
- We report the discovery of an Earth-sized planet ($1.1\pm 0.2 R_\oplus$) in an 8.5-hour orbit around a late G-type star (KIC 8435766). The object was identified in a search for short-period planets in the Kepler database and confirmed to be a transiting planet (as opposed to an eclipsing stellar system) through the absence of ellipsoidal light variations or radial-velocity variations. The unusually short orbital period and the relative brightness of the host star ($m_{\rm Kep}$ = 11.5) enable robust detections of the changing illumination of the visible hemisphere of the planet, as well as the occultations of the planet by the star. We interpret these signals as representing a combination of reflected and reprocessed light, with the highest planet dayside temperatures in the range of 2300 K to 3100 K, and corresponding albedos of 0.6 to 0.2. Follow-up spectroscopy combined with shorter-cadence Kepler data will further pin down the system parameters and may even yield the mass of the planet.
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Daniel SuperEarth
Number of posts : 272 Registration date : 2009-11-14
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 3:47 am | |
| It's a Earth-size planet and not Super-Earth size planet,people in our days talk so much about "super-Earth planets" that forget about the Earth-size and Sub Earth-size planets exoplanets... | |
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Led_Zep SuperJovian
Number of posts : 721 Location : France Registration date : 2011-09-09
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 11:11 am | |
| Page 1 : « …Here we report the detection of an Earth-sized planet with an orbital period of 8.5 hr, resulting from our FT-based survey of Kepler data. This system does not appear among the Kepler Objects of Interest, supporting the notion that the standard pipeline has missed some of the shortest-period planets… »
Page 2 « …A list of 20 potentially new short-period planet candidates passed all these tests, with orbital periods between 4 and 16 hours. As expected, this list is comprised entirely of objects smaller than Neptune. We will report on the entire collection in a separate paper. For this initial report we chose to focus on KIC 8435766, because it has the brightest host star, one of the shortest orbital periods, and the most significant detection of the illumination curve and occultations… » | |
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Edasich dK star
Number of posts : 2289 Location : Tau Ceti g - Mid Latitudes Registration date : 2008-06-02
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 11:14 am | |
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: KIC 8435766 b - Transiting terrestrial planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 12:59 pm | |
| Wow, that sounds like quite a nasty place, nothing on the KOI-55 planets though! I have real trouble visualising these planets, the substellar point is glowing like an incandescent light bulb, but that pales in comparison to the illumination shining on it from the star... all the artworks depicting worlds like CoRoT-7b and Kepler-10b just seem to me to be woefully inadequate at conveying what these worlds must look like. (Though I suspect burning out people's retinas in the illustration for the press release would not be well-received). Mercury is at least comprehensible... Edited to add: - Edasich wrote:
- Listed at EPE:
detected by microlensing!?! | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
Number of posts : 4320 Location : Earth Registration date : 2008-04-06
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 3:09 pm | |
| Makes me wonder what else I miss when checking arXiv. I've moved the posts about KIC 8435766 b into a separate thread. _________________ Caps Lock: Cruise control for 'Cool'!
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Edasich dK star
Number of posts : 2289 Location : Tau Ceti g - Mid Latitudes Registration date : 2008-06-02
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 3:28 pm | |
| - Quote :
- detected by microlensing!?!
Hurry may play nasty tricks... | |
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 4:06 pm | |
| Yes, looks like a bit of a mis-categorisation there!
I really have to wonder about why we have such a large empty gap between Mercury and the Sun, while these systems seem to have planets all the way down. | |
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PlutonianEmpire Planetesimal
Number of posts : 139 Age : 39 Location : Minnesota Registration date : 2012-01-29
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 21st May 2013, 10:52 pm | |
| _________________ Circumbinary sunset! | |
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Sunchaser Planetesimal
Number of posts : 133 Age : 53 Registration date : 2011-12-23
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 22nd May 2013, 7:02 am | |
| Judging by the photo, they must be real...
8.5 hrs?!?!?! Yowza. What would the estimated temp be?
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Edasich dK star
Number of posts : 2289 Location : Tau Ceti g - Mid Latitudes Registration date : 2008-06-02
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 22nd May 2013, 7:09 am | |
| - Sunchaser wrote:
- Judging by the photo, they must be real...
8.5 hrs?!?!?! Yowza. What would the estimated temp be?
-M- Just browse the preprint: - Quote :
- [...]with the highest planet dayside temperatures in the range of 2300 K to 3100 K, and corresponding albedos of 0.6 to 0.2. [...]
However the shortest period Kepler candidate seems to be KOI-1843 with P orb = 4.5 hours. | |
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Edasich dK star
Number of posts : 2289 Location : Tau Ceti g - Mid Latitudes Registration date : 2008-06-02
| Subject: temp 16th July 2013, 4:07 am | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
Number of posts : 4320 Location : Earth Registration date : 2008-04-06
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 16th July 2013, 6:03 am | |
| Good catch, Edasich. I've renamed the thread. _________________ Caps Lock: Cruise control for 'Cool'!
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Edasich dK star
Number of posts : 2289 Location : Tau Ceti g - Mid Latitudes Registration date : 2008-06-02
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 16th July 2013, 8:32 am | |
| - Sirius_Alpha wrote:
- Good catch, Edasich. I've renamed the thread.
Thanks, Sirius. Just a serendipitous find. Good idea to divide the thread. | |
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 20th August 2013, 4:29 pm | |
| This one and KOI-1843.03 have now had a news release about them. Space.comI'm still not entirely convinced by these depictions of the planets as glowing red balls of lava, it looks from figure 5 that the reflected light should be brighter than the thermal emission. | |
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 30th October 2013, 2:47 pm | |
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 31st October 2013, 2:39 pm | |
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 5th July 2014, 2:34 pm | |
| Hatzes (arXiv 2014) "The Detection of Earth-mass Planets around Active Stars: The Mass of Kepler-78b" http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0853Correcting for stellar activity gives a lower mass estimate 1.31 ± 0.24 M ⊕, suggesting an iron-deficient composition more like the Moon than Mercury. | |
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Shellface Neptune-Mass
Number of posts : 283 Location : g2 17.∞ 997 t Registration date : 2013-02-14
| Subject: Re: Kepler-78 (KIC 8435766) - Transiting Earth-sized planet in 8.5 hr orbit 5th July 2014, 2:58 pm | |
| …Which is within 1σ of both previous values.
Densities are hard. (harharhar puns) | |
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tommi59 Jovian
Number of posts : 596 Age : 46 Location : Baile Atha Cliath Registration date : 2010-07-31
| Subject: kepler 78 b 5th January 2015, 7:26 am | |
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