Kepler-1704b is a super-Jupiter on a highly eccentric orbit around the star Kepler-1704. It has a mass of 4.51 MJ. The planet's distance from its star varies from 0.16 to 3.9 AU. It is a failed hot Jupiter, been scattered from its birth orbit to orbit with periastron just above tidal circularization distance.[2]
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Discovered by | Paul A. Dalba, Stephen R. Kane, Zhexing Li, Mason G. Macdougall, Lee J. Rosenthal, Collin Cherubim, Howard Isaacson, Daniel P. Thorngren, Benjamin Fulton, Andrew W. Howard, Erik A. Petigura, Edward W. Schwieterman, Dan O. Peluso, Thomas M. Esposito, Franck Marchis, Matthew J. Payne |
Discovery date | 2021 |
Designations | |
Alternative names | KOI-375.01 |
Orbital characteristics | |
Periastron | 0.16 |
Apoastron | 3.9 |
Semi-major axis | 2.026+0.024 −0.031 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.921+0.010 −0.015 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 988.8811177±0.0009114[1] |
Inclination | 89.01+0.59 −0.27° |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 10.81 REarth[1] |
Mass | 4.15 ± 0.29 MJ |
Temperature | 253.8+3.7 −4.1 K[2] |
Kepler-1704b is much more massive than Jupiter, at 4.51 MJ.[2] The high planetary mass makes Kepler-1704b a super-Jupiter. Kepler-1704b goes on a highly eccentric 2.7 year-long (988.88 days) orbit around its star as well as transiting.[2] The extreme eccentricity yields a temperature difference of up to 700 K.[2]
The star, Kepler-1704, is a G2, 5745-kelvin star 825 parsecs (2,690 ly) from Earth and the sun. It has a mass of 1.131 M☉, a radius of 1.697 R☉, and a luminosity of 2.83 L☉. The high radius for the star's mass hints that Kepler-1704 is not a main-sequence star.[3]
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