Kepler 's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b
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Batalha, Natalie M.
Borucki, William J.
Bryson, Stephen T.
Buchhave, Lars A.
Caldwell, Douglas A.
Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen
Ciardi, David
Dunham, Edward W.
Fressin, Francois
Gautier, Thomas N.
Gilliland, Ronald L.
Haas, Michael R.
Howell, Steve B.
Jenkins, Jon M.
Kjeldsen, Hans
Koch, David G.
Latham, David W.
Lissauer, Jack J.
Marcy, Geoffrey W.
Rowe, Jason F.
Sasselov, Dimitar D.
Seager, Sara
Steffen, Jason H.
Torres, Guillermo
Basri, Gibor S.
Brown, Timothy M.
Charbonneau, David
Christiansen, Jessie
Clarke, Bruce
Cochran, William D.
Dupree, Andrea
Fabrycky, Daniel C.
Fischer, Debra
Ford, Eric B.
Fortney, Jonathan
Girouard, Forrest R.
Holman, Matthew J.
Johnson, John
Isaacson, Howard
Klaus, Todd C.
Machalek, Pavel
Moorehead, Althea V.
Morehead, Robert C.
Ragozzine, Darin
Tenenbaum, Peter
Twicken, Joseph
Quinn, Samuel
VanCleve, Jeffrey
Walkowicz, Lucianne M.
Welsh, William F.
Devore, Edna
Gould, Alan
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Batalha, Natalie M., William J. Borucki, Stephen T. Bryson, Lars A. Buchhave, Douglas A. Caldwell, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, David Ciardi, et al. 2011. “KEPLER’S FIRST ROCKY PLANET: KEPLER-10b.” The Astrophysical Journal 729 (1): 27. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/729/1/27.Abstract
NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that goal: the discovery of its first rocky planet, Kepler-10b. Two distinct sets of transit events were detected: (1) a 152 +/- 4 ppm dimming lasting 1.811 +/- 0.024 hr with ephemeris T [BJD] = 2454964.57375(-0.00082)(+0.00060) + N * 0.837495(-0.000005)(+0.000004) days and (2) a 376 +/- 9 ppm dimming lasting 6.86 +/- 0.07 hr with ephemeris T [BJD] = 2454971.6761(-0.0023)(+0.0020) + N * 45.29485(-0.00076)(+0.00065) days. Statistical tests on the photometric and pixel flux time series established the viability of the planet candidates triggering ground-based follow-up observations. Forty precision Doppler measurements were used to confirm that the short-period transit event is due to a planetary companion. The parent star is bright enough for asteroseismic analysis. Photometry was collected at 1 minute cadence for > 4 months from which we detected 19 distinct pulsation frequencies. Modeling the frequencies resulted in precise knowledge of the fundamental stellar properties. Kepler-10 is a relatively old (11.9 +/- 4.5 Gyr) but otherwise Sun-like main-sequence star with T-eff = 5627 +/- 44 K, M-star = 0.895 +/- 0.060M(circle dot), and R-star = 1.056 +/- 0.021R(circle dot). Physical models simultaneously fit to the transit light curves and the precision Doppler measurements yielded tight constraints on the properties of Kepler-10b that speak to its rocky composition: M-P = 4.56(-1.29)(+1.17) M-circle plus, R-P = 1.416(-0.036)(+0.033) R-circle plus, and rho P = 8.8(-2.9)(+2.1) g cm(-3). Kepler-10b is the smallest transiting exoplanet discovered to date.Terms of Use
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