Kepler-453b

Transiting circumbinary exoplanet in the binary system Kepler-453

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.^[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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "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. S2CID 55158342.
^ 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. S2CID 119187045.

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