Kepler-160
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Lyra
Right ascension 19h 11m 05.6526s[1]
Declination +42° 52′ 09.4725″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 13.101
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage G2V
J−H color index 0.359
J−K color index 0.408
Variable type ROT, Planetary transit
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: 3.476±0.032[1] mas/yr
Dec.: -5.212±0.035[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)1.0385 ± 0.0183 mas
Distance3,140 ± 60 ly
(960 ± 20 pc)
Details
Radius1.118+0.015
−0.045[2] R☉
Luminosity1.01±0.05[2] L☉
Surface gravity (log g)4.515[3] cgs
Temperature5471+115
−37[2] K
Metallicity [Fe/H]-0.361 dex
Other designations
Gaia DR2 2102587087846067712, KOI-456, KIC 7269974, 2MASS J19110565+4252094[1]
Database references
SIMBADdata
KICdata

Kepler-160 is a main-sequence star approximately the width of our Galactic arm away in the constellation Lyra, first studied in detail by the Kepler Mission, a NASA-led operation tasked with discovering terrestrial planets. The star, which is very similar to the Sun in mass and radius,[3][2] has three confirmed planets and one unconfirmed planet orbiting it.

Characteristics

The star Kepler-160 is rather old, having no detectable circumstellar disk.[4] The star's metallicity is unknown, with conflicting values of either 40% or 160% of solar metallicity reported.[5][6]

Of this system (and all others) the Breakthrough Listen search for extraterrestrial intelligence found no potential technosignatures.[7]

Planetary system

The two planetary candidates in the Kepler-160 system were discovered in 2010, published in early 2011[8] and confirmed in 2014.[9] The planets Kepler-160b and Kepler-160c are not in orbital resonance despite their orbital periods ratio being close to 1:3.[10]

An additional rocky transiting planet candidate KOI-456.04, located in the habitable zone, was detected in 2020,[2] and more non-transiting planets are suspected due to residuals in the solution for the transit timing variations. From what researchers can tell, KOI-456.04 looks to be less than twice the size of Earth and is apparently orbiting Kepler-160 at about the same distance from Earth to the sun (one complete orbit is 378 days). Perhaps most important, it receives about 93% as much light as Earth gets from the sun.[11] Nontransiting planet candidate Kepler-160d has a mass between about 1 and 100 Earth masses and an orbital period between about 7 and 50 d.[2]

The Kepler-160 planetary system[2]
Companion
(in order from star) 		Mass Semimajor axis
(AU) 		Orbital period
(days) 		Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b — 0.05511+0.0019
−0.0037 		4.309397+0.000013
−0.000012 		0 — 1.715+0.061
−0.047 R🜨
c — 0.1192+0.004
−0.008 		13.699429±0.000018 0 — 3.76+0.23
−0.09 R🜨
d 1—100 M🜨 — 7—50 — — —
e (unconfirmed) — 1.089+0.037
−0.073 		378.417+0.028
−0.025 		0 — 1.91+0.17
−0.14 R⊕

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Kepler-160 -- Rotationally variable Star
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Heller, René; Hippke, Michael; Freudenthal, Jantje; Rodenbeck, Kai; Batalha, Natalie M.; Bryson, Steve (2020). "Transit least-squares survey". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 638: A10. arXiv:2006.02123. Bibcode:2020A&A...638A..10H. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936929. S2CID 219260293.
  3. ^ a b Borucki, William J.; Koch, David G.; Basri, Gibor; Batalha, Natalie; Boss, Alan; Brown, Timothy M.; Caldwell, Douglas; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Cochran, William D.; Devore, Edna; Dunham, Edward W.; Dupree, Andrea K.; Gautier Iii, Thomas N.; Geary, John C.; Gilliland, Ronald; Gould, Alan; Howell, Steve B.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Kjeldsen, Hans; Latham, David W.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Monet, David G.; Sasselov, Dimitar; Tarter, Jill; Charbonneau, David; Doyle, Laurance; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan; et al. (2011). "Characteristics Ofkeplerplanetary Candidates Based on the First Data Set". The Astrophysical Journal. 728 (2): 117. arXiv:1006.2799. Bibcode:2011ApJ...728..117B. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/728/2/117. S2CID 93116.
  4. ^ Lawler, S. M.; Gladman, B. (2012). "Debris Disks Inkeplerexoplanet Systems". The Astrophysical Journal. 752 (1): 53. arXiv:1112.0368. Bibcode:2012ApJ...752...53L. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/53. S2CID 119215667.
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  6. ^ Petigura, Erik A.; Howard, Andrew W.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Johnson, John Asher; Isaacson, Howard; Cargile, Phillip A.; Hebb, Leslie; Fulton, Benjamin J.; Weiss, Lauren M.; Morton, Timothy D.; Winn, Joshua N.; Rogers, Leslie A.; Sinukoff, Evan; Hirsch, Lea A.; Crossfield, Ian J. M. (2017). "The California-Kepler Survey. I. High-resolution Spectroscopy of 1305 Stars HostingKepler Transiting Planets". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (3): 107. arXiv:1703.10400. Bibcode:2017AJ....154..107P. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa80de. S2CID 55183141.
  7. ^ Perez, Karen; Brzycki, Bryan; Gajjar, Vishal; Isaacson, Howard; Siemion, Andrew; Croft, Steve; DeBoer, David; Lebofsky, Matt; MacMahon, David H. E.; Price, Danny C.; Sheikh, Sofia; Drew, Jamie; Pete Worden, S. (2020), "Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160System", Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 4 (6): 97, arXiv:2006.13789, Bibcode:2020RNAAS...4...97P, doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab9f36, S2CID 220042074
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  9. ^ Planet Kepler-160 b on exoplanet.eu
  10. ^ Veras, Dimitri; Ford, Eric B. (2012). "Identifying non-resonant Kepler planetary systems". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 420 (1): L23–L27. arXiv:1111.0299. Bibcode:2012MNRAS.420L..23V. doi:10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01185.x. S2CID 55625425.
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