Kepler-89 Explained

Kepler-89 is a star with four confirmed planets. Kepler-89 is a possible wide binary star.[1]

Planetary system

The discovery of four planets orbiting the star was announced October 2012 by analyzing data gathered by Kepler space telescope. Follow-up radial velocity measurements confirmed the existence of Kepler-89d, indicating that Kepler-89d is slightly larger and more massive than Saturn. In October 2013, other three planets were confirmed with Kepler-89c and Kepler-89e getting reasonable mass constraints. Transit-timing variations of the outermost planet suggest that additional planets or minor bodies are present in the system.

In 2012, a partial transit of the second outermost planet by the outermost planet was reported. This was the first time a planet-planet transit in front of the star was detected.[2] This allowed to determine the mutual inclination of the planets d and e to be 1.15°.

Stephen R. Kane did a dynamical analysis of the Kepler-89 system that demonstrated that planets c and d, although close to the 2:1 secular resonance, are not permanently in a 2:1 resonance configuration.

Notes and References

  1. 1309.2559 . Takahashi . Yasuhiro H. . Norio Narita . Teruyuki Hirano . Masayuki Kuzuhara . Motohide Tamura . Tomoyuki Kudo . Nobuhiko Kusakabe . Jun Hashimoto . Bun'ei Sato . 4 . A Discovery of a Candidate Companion to a Transiting System KOI-94: A Direct Imaging Study for a Possibility of a False Positive . 2013 . Lyu Abe . Wolfgang Brandner . Brandt . Timothy D. . Carson . Joseph C. . Thayne Currie . Sebastian Egner . Markus Feldt . Miwa Goto . Grady . Carol A. . Olivier Guyon . Yutaka Hayano . Masahiko Hayashi . Hayashi . Saeko S. . Thomas Henning . Hodapp . Klaus W. . Miki Ishii . Masanori Iye . Markus Janson . Ryo Kandori . Knapp . Gillian R. . Jungmi Kwon . astro-ph.EP .
  2. Web site: First ever discovery of planet-planet eclipse | UTokyo Research. u-tokyo.ac.jp. 2014-01-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20131104043242/http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/todai-research/research-news/first-ever-discovery-of-planet-planet-eclipse/. 2013-11-04. dead.