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Kepler-16b

(KOI-1611.02)
(exoplanet orbiting a binary star)

Kepler-16b is a giant extra-solar planet orbiting a binary star, a circumbinary planet (i.e., in orbit around the pair). The stars, Kepler-16A and Kepler-16B are a K dwarf and an M dwarf, orbiting each other at about 0.2 AU with a period of about 41 days. Planet characteristics:


(exoplanet,binary stars,gas giant,transit method)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-16b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-16
http://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=kepler-16b
http://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=kepler-16
https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler_16_ab_b--989/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011Sci...333.1602D/abstract
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
~075pc245lyKepler-16b
Coordinates:Kepler-16b
J191618.1759+514526.778

Referenced by page:
circumbinary planet

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