Q14914827
Sign in to saveKepler-65 is a subgiant star slightly more massive than the Sun and has at least four planets.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Er*
- Spectral type
- F6IV
- Distance
- 983 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.00005834532944337667
- Coordinates
- RA 288.6887° · Dec 41.1512°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Planetary system
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Kepler-65 is a subgiant star slightly more massive than the Sun and has at least four planets.
==Planetary system== Three transiting planets were announced in 2013. A fourth non-transiting planet was discovered using radial velocity measurements in 2019. The first three planets orbit very close to their star. Initial follow-up radial velocity measurements provided data too noisy to constrain the mass of planets. Follow-up transit-timing variation analysis helped to measure the mass of Kepler-65d which revealed that it has significantly lower density than Earth.
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