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Kepler-385

Kepler-385 is an F-type main-sequence star located about 4,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The star is 10% larger and 5% hotter than the Sun. The star has at least three, and potentially up to seven, exoplanets discovered orbiting it.

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Kepler-385
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Cygnus1
Right ascension 19h 37m 21.23819s2
Declination +50° 20′ 11.5477″2
Apparent magnitude (V) 15.763
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage main sequence2
Spectral type F4
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: +2.738 mas/yr2
Dec.: −5.398 mas/yr2
Parallax (π)0.6597±0.0183 mas2
Distance4,900 ± 100 ly
(1,520 ± 40 pc)
Details
Mass0.99±0.035 M
Radius1.09±0.055 R
Luminosity1.52 L
Surface gravity (log g)4.19±0.105 cgs
Temperature5835±645 K
Metallicity [Fe/H]0.010±0.0375 dex
Rotation25.11 days6
Rotational velocity (v sin i)2.806 km/s
Age7.66 Gyr
Other designations
Kepler-385, KOI-2433, KIC 11968463, TIC 27082352, 2MASS J19372123+50201157
Database references
SIMBADdata
Exoplanet Archivedata

Kepler-385 (also designated KOI-2433) is an F-type main-sequence star located about 4,900 light-years (1,500 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The star is 10% larger and 5% hotter than the Sun. The star has at least three, and potentially up to seven, exoplanets discovered orbiting it.89

The star has a mass of 1.05 solar masses, a radius of 1.157 solar radii, a temperature of 5829 Kelvin and a luminosity of 1.39 times the solar luminosity.3

Planetary system

Kepler-385 was observed by the Kepler space telescope, which initially detected a total of seven planet candidates. Two of these, KOI-2433.01 & .02, were confirmed in 2014 as Kepler-385 b & c,10 and a third, KOI-2433.03, was confirmed in 2020 as Kepler-385 d.11 These confirmations were part of studies using statistical validation to confirm large numbers of Kepler candidates. The candidate KOI-2433.05 was shown to be a false positive.5

In 2023, a new updated catalog of Kepler candidates was presented, including an eighth candidate around Kepler-385, KOI-2433.08, making it a candidate seven-planet system.58 Kepler-385 is tied with Kepler-90 - a confirmed eight-planet system - as the Kepler system with the most planet candidates.

The Kepler-385 planetary system35
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination
(°)
Radius
.08 (unconfirmed) 3.37376±0.00003 1.206+0.110
−0.101
 R🜨
.06 (unconfirmed) 0.067 6.06325±0.00006 1.441+0.129
−0.106
 R🜨
b 0.097 10.04381±0.00008 2.313+0.210
−0.162
 R🜨
c 0.127 15.16213±0.00014 2.406+0.549
−0.146
 R🜨
.04 (unconfirmed) 0.189 27.90426±0.00040 1.903+0.184
−0.142
 R🜨
d 0.302 56.41581±0.00135 2.423+0.210
−0.161
 R🜨
.07 (unconfirmed) 0.402 86.43086±0.00205 2.252±0.199 R🜨
References

References

  1. Roman, Nancy G. (1987). "Identification of a constellation from a position". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 99 (617): 695. Bibcode:1987PASP...99..695R. doi:10.1086/132034. Constellation record for this object at VizieR.
  2. Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv:2208.00211. Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940. S2CID 244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  3. "Kepler-385 | NASA Exoplanet Archive". exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  4. Mulders, Gijs D.; Pascucci, Ilaria; Apai, Dániel (2015). "An Increase in the Mass of Planetary Systems around Lower-mass Stars". The Astrophysical Journal. 814 (2): 130. arXiv:1510.02481. Bibcode:2015ApJ...814..130M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/130.
  5. Lissauer, Jack J.; Rowe, Jason F.; et al. (2024). "Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus on Accuracy and Orbital Periods". The Planetary Science Journal. 5 (6): 152. arXiv:2311.00238. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ad0e6e. Data is available here.
  6. Tejada Arevalo, Roberto A.; Winn, Joshua N.; Anderson, Kassandra R. (2021). "Further Evidence for Tidal Spin-up of Hot Jupiter Host Stars". The Astrophysical Journal. 919 (2): 138. arXiv:2107.05759. Bibcode:2021ApJ...919..138T. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac1429.
  7. "Kepler-385". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  8. "Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List - NASA". 2023-11-02. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  9. Anderson, Natali (2023-11-06). "Kepler-385 Hosts Seven Large Exoplanets, Astronomers Say | Sci.News". Sci.News: Breaking Science News. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  10. Rowe, Jason F.; Bryson, Stephen T.; et al. (March 2014). "Validation of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates. III. Light Curve Analysis and Announcement of Hundreds of New Multi-planet Systems". The Astrophysical Journal. 784 (1): 45. arXiv:1402.6534. Bibcode:2014ApJ...784...45R. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/784/1/45.
  11. Armstrong, David J.; Gamper, Jevgenij; Damoulas, Theodoros (July 2021). "Exoplanet validation with machine learning: 50 new validated Kepler planets". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504 (4): 5327–5344. arXiv:2008.10516. Bibcode:2021MNRAS.504.5327A. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa2498.