Discovery and Validation of Kepler-452b: A 1.6 R⨁ Super Earth Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone of a G2 Star
@article{Jenkins2015DiscoveryAV, title={Discovery and Validation of Kepler-452b: A 1.6 R⨁ Super Earth Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone of a G2 Star}, author={J. Jenkins and J. Twicken and N. Batalha and D. Caldwell and W. Cochran and M. Endl and D. Latham and G. Esquerdo and S. Seader and A. Bieryla and E. Petigura and D. Ciardi and G. Marcy and H. Isaacson and D. Huber and J. F. Rowe and Guillermo Torres and S. Bryson and L. Buchhave and I. Ram{\'i}rez and A. Wolfgang and J. Li and J. Campbell and P. Tenenbaum and D. Sanderfer and C. Henze and J. Catanzarite and R. Gilliland and W. Borucki}, journal={The Astronomical Journal}, year={2015}, volume={150}, pages={56} }
We report on the discovery and validation of Kepler-452b, a transiting planet identified by a search through the 4 years of data collected by NASA's Kepler Mission. This possibly rocky 1.63_(-0.20)^(+0.23) R⨁ planet orbits its G2 host star every 384.843_(-0.012)^(+0.007) days, the longest orbital period for a small (R_p < 2 R⨁) transiting exoplanet to date. The likelihood that this planet has a rocky composition lies between 49% and 62%. The star has an effective temperature of 5757 ± 85 K and… CONTINUE READING
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