• DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ab84e5
Corpus ID: 215768850

A Habitable-Zone Earth-Sized Planet Rescued from False Positive Status

@article{Vanderburg2020AHE,
  title={A Habitable-Zone Earth-Sized Planet Rescued from False Positive Status},
  author={A. Vanderburg and Pamela Rowden and S. Bryson and J. Coughlin and N. Batalha and K. Collins and D. Latham and S. Mullally and K. Col'on and C. Henze and C. Huang and S. Quinn},
  journal={arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics},
  year={2020}
}

A. Vanderburg, Pamela Rowden, +9 authors S. Quinn

Published 2020

Physics

arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

We report the discovery of an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a low-mass star called Kepler-1649. The planet, Kepler-1649 c, is 1.06$^{+0.15}_{-0.10}$ times the size of Earth and transits its 0.1977 +/- 0.0051 Msun mid M-dwarf host star every 19.5 days. It receives 74 +/- 3 % the incident flux of Earth, giving it an equilibrium temperature of 234 +/- 20K and placing it firmly inside the circumstellar habitable zone. Kepler-1649 also hosts a previously-known inner planet that orbits… CONTINUE READING

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