Kepler-440b
Coordinates: 19h 01m 23.99s, +41° 27′ 07.94″
Kepler-440b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest
designation KOI-4087.01) is a confirmed super-Earth exoplanet Kepler-440b[1]
orbiting within the habitable zone of Kepler-440, about 850 light- Discovery
years (261 pc) from Earth.[1] The planet was discovered by
Discovery site Kepler Space
NASA's Kepler spacecraft using the transit method, in which the
Observatory
dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star
is measured. NASA announced the confirmation of the exoplanet Discovery date 2015[2]
on 6 January 2015.[4] Detection Transit
method
Confirmed exoplanet Orbital characteristics
Semi-major 0.24200 AU
Kepler-440b is a [super-Earth] with a radius 1.86 times that of axis (36,203,000 km)
Earth. The planet orbits Kepler-440 once every 101.1 days.[1]
Eccentricity >0.340
Orbital period 101.11141000 d
Habitability (sidereal)
Inclination 89.930
The planet was announced as being located within the habitable
zone of Kepler-440, a region where liquid water could exist on the Star Kepler-440
surface of the planet.[1] Physical characteristics
Mean radius 1.860 R🜨
Temperature 273 K (0 °C;
32 °F).[3]
Notable Exoplanets – Kepler Space Telescope
Confirmed small exoplanets in habitable zones.
(Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, Kepler-186f, Kepler-296e, Kepler-296f, Kepler-438b, Kepler-440b, Kepler-442b)
(Kepler Space Telescope; 6 January 2015).[4]
Size comparison
Earth Kepler-440b
See also
Habitability of K-type main-sequence star systems
List of potentially habitable exoplanets
References
1. Torres, Guillermo; Kipping, David M.; Fressin, Francois; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Twicken,
Joseph D.; Ballard, Sarah; Batalha, Natalie M.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Ciardi, David R.; Henze,
Christopher E.; Howell, Steve B.; Isaacson, Howard T.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Muirhead, Philip S.;
Newton, Elisabeth R.; Petigura, Erik A.; Barclay, Thomas; Borucki, William J.; Crepp, Justin
R.; Everett, Mark E.; Horch, Elliott P.; Howard, Andrew W.; Kolbl, Rea; Marcy, Geoffrey W.;
McCauliff, Sean; Quintana, Elisa V. (2015). "Validation of Twelve Small Kepler Transiting
Planets in the Habitable Zone". The Astrophysical Journal. 800 (2): 99. arXiv:1501.01101 (ht
tps://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01101). Bibcode:2015ApJ...800...99T (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
abs/2015ApJ...800...99T). doi:10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/99 (https://doi.org/10.1088%2F000
4-637X%2F800%2F2%2F99). S2CID 8512655 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:85
12655).
2. Staff (2015). "Planet Kepler-440 b" (http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler-440_b/). The
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
3. "HEC: Data of Potential Habitable Worlds" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120601044944/ht
tp://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data). Archived from the original (http
s://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data) on 1 June 2012. Retrieved
25 January 2015.
4. Clavin, Whitney; Chou, Felicia; Johnson, Michele (6 January 2015). "NASA's Kepler Marks
1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers More Small Worlds in Habitable Zones" (http://www.
jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-003). NASA. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
External links
NASA – Mission overview (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/overview/index.htm
l).
NASA – Kepler Discoveries – Summary Table (https://web.archive.org/web/2010052710431
6/http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/).
NASA – Kepler-440b (http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/DisplayOverview/nph-
DisplayOverview?objname=Kepler-440+b&type=CONFIRMED_PLANET) at The NASA
Exoplanet Archive.
NASA – Kepler-440b (http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler-440_b/) at The Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopaedia.
Habitable Exolanets Catalog (https://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog) at
UPR-Arecibo.
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