Wednesday, March 19, 2014

KIC 5871088 Possible Long Period Unlisted Saturn Size Planet

Planet transit in Q16 for KIC 5871088 at Planet Hunters

Planet Hunters forum Talk member Clue4fun4 flagged this transit drop in Kepler Quarter 16. It is a very long period planet that has shown up at the tail end of the Kepler data stream prior to the spacecraft going offline in 2013.

Comments by Kian Jek:
This is a very long duration transit that sneaked into the last days of Q16. Eyeballing it, the duration suggests a long period. The primary is a Type K subgiant.
Running a transit fit yields the following:


 The period is very long, from 4.4 to 7.7 yr. The planet is approximately the size of Saturn, at 8.11x RE, based on a stellar radius of 0.882x Sol.


You can follow this planet at Planet Hunters forum Talk page here.

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