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arxiv: 1001.0913 · v1 · pith:LPG54FIOnew · submitted 2010-01-06 · 🌌 astro-ph.EP

Discovery of the Transiting Planet Kepler-5b

David G. Koch (NASA Ames Research Center) , William J. Borucki (NASA Ames Research Center) , Jason F. Rowe (NASA Ames Research Center) , Natalie M. Batalha (San Jose State University) , Timothy M. Brown (Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope) , Douglas A. Caldwell (NASA Ames Research Center) , John Caldwell (York University) , William D. Cochran (University of Texas
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Austin) Edna DeVore (SETI Institute) Edward W. Dunham (Lowell Observatory Flagstaff) Andrea K. Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Thomas N. Gautier III (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) John C. Geary (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Ron L. Gilliland (Space Telescope Science Institute) Steve B. Howell (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) Jon M. Jenkins (SETI Institute) David W. Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Jack J. Lissauer (NASA Ames Research Center) Geoff W. Marcy (University of California Berkeley) David Morrison (NASA Ames Research Center) Jill Tarter (SETI Institute)
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We present 44 days of high duty cycle, ultra precise photometry of the 13th magnitude star Kepler-5 (KIC 8191672, Teff=6300 K, logg=4.1), which exhibits periodic transits with a depth of 0.7%. Detailed modeling of the transit is consistent with a planetary companion with an orbital period of 3.548460+/-0.000032 days and a radius of 1.431+/-0.050 Rj. Follow-up radial velocity measurements with the Keck HIRES spectrograph on 9 separate nights demonstrate that the planet is more than twice as massive as Jupiter with a mass of 2.114+/-0.057 and a mean density of 0.894+/-0.079 g/cm^3.

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