Kepler-1520b
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Kepler-1520b (initially published as KIC 12557548 b), is a confirmed exoplanet orbiting the K-type main sequence star Kepler-1520. It is located about 2,020 light-years (620 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The exoplanet was found by using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. The planet was previously proposed in 2012 when reports of its host star recorded drops in its luminosity varying from 0.2% to 1.3%, which indicated a possible planetary companion rapidly disintegrating. In 2015, the pl
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 1,915 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 290.9662° · Dec 51.5047°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Parent body
- KIC 12557548
- Radius
- 5.77
- Mass
- 0.000063
- Orbital period
- 0.653553572
- Image
- KIC 12557548.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2016-05-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- declination
- 51.50471765518778
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension
- 290.96620794573585
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.013
- discovery method
- transit method
- catalog code
- TIC 417679385b
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.321
- declination component of proper motion
- 11.146
- parallax
- 1.6167
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Physical characteristics
- Mass, radius, and temperature
- Host star
- Orbit
- Remaining lifetime
- Discovery
- 2012 detections
- 2016 confirmation
- See also
- References
- External links
Kepler-1520b (initially published as KIC 12557548 b), is a confirmed exoplanet orbiting the K-type main sequence star Kepler-1520. It is located about 2,020 light-years (620 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The exoplanet was found by using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. The planet was previously proposed in 2012 when reports of its host star recorded drops in its luminosity varying from 0.2% to 1.3%, which indicated a possible planetary companion rapidly disintegrating. In 2015, the planetary nature of the cause of the dips was finally verified. It is expected to disintegrate in about 40–400 million years.
==Physical characteristics==
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