KELT-10, also known as CD−47°12635, is a sun-like star in the southern constellation Telescopium. It has an apparent magnitude of 10.62,[2] making it readily visible in telescopes, but not to the naked eye. Parallax measurements from the Gaia spacecraft place the star at a distance of 617 light years;[1] it is currently receding with a radial velocity of 31.6 km/s.[4]
KELT-10 has a stellar classification of G0 V,[3] indicating that it is a yellow dwarf like the Sun. However, the object is 7% more massive[5] and 21% larger.[3] It is also slightly hotter, with an effective temperature of 5,948 K[3] compared to the Sun's of 5,778 K. The star has a similar age, with an age of 4.5 billion years[3] and more luminous, having a luminosity 40% greater.[4] KELT-10's iron abundance is 123% that of the Sun,[3] consistent with a planetary host. However, this amount is poorly constrained.
Planetary System
In 2015, a "hot Jupiter" orbiting the star was discovered by the KELT-South telescope. KELT-10b orbits at a distance 10 time closer than Mercury orbits the Sun, and is bloated due to its orbit.
Companion (in order from star) |
Mass | Semimajor axis (AU) |
Orbital period (days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
b | 0.68±0.04 MJ | 0.052±0.001 | 4.1662739±0.0000063 | 0 (assumed) | 88.61+0.86 −0.74° |
1.4±0.1 RJ |
References
- ^ a b c d e Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2021). "Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 649: A1. arXiv:2012.01533. Bibcode:2021A&A...649A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039657. S2CID 227254300. (Erratum: doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039657e). Gaia EDR3 record for this source at VizieR.
- ^ a b c Høg, E.; Fabricius, C.; Makarov, V. V.; Urban, S.; Corbin, T.; Wycoff, G.; Bastian, U.; Schwekendiek, P.; Wicenec, A. (March 2000). "The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 355: L27 – L30. Bibcode:2000A&A...355L..27H. ISSN 0004-6361.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kuhn, Rudolf B.; et al. (15 April 2016). "KELT-10b: the first transiting exoplanet from the KELT-South survey – a hot sub-Jupiter transiting aV= 10.7 early G-star". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 459 (4): 4281–4298. arXiv:1509.02323. Bibcode:2016MNRAS.459.4281K. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw880. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711.
- ^ a b c d Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ^ a b Stassun, Keivan G.; et al. (9 September 2019). "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List". The Astronomical Journal. 158 (4): 138. arXiv:1905.10694. Bibcode:2019AJ....158..138S. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab3467. ISSN 0004-6256.
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