Discovery Method
Transit
Consistent across records
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K2-115 b
Host star K2-115 • 11.80 R⊕ • 20.27 d orbit
Records
11
archive rows
Discovery
2017
Transit
Radius
11.80 R⊕
default parameter set
Mass
321.0 M⊕
default parameter set
K2-115
696 K equilibrium
Canonical Summary
Adopted planet values from the default parameter set
Values come from the archive's default parameter set. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.
Selected source: Thygesen et al. 2023
Host Star
K2-115
Stable across source rows
Discovery Year
2017
Stable across source rows
Orbital Period
20.27 day
20.27 to 20.27
Semi-Major Axis
0.14 au
0.14 to 0.14
Radius
11.80 Rearth
10.44 to 12.50
Mass
321.0 Mearth
267.0 to 321.0
Density
1.07 g/cm**3
0.82 to 1.07
Equilibrium Temperature
696 K
592 to 696
Scale Comparison
Radius against familiar reference worlds
Current adopted radius: 11.80 R⊕ • circles scaled linearly by radius
Earth
1.0 R⊕ baseline
K2-115 b
11.80 R⊕
Jupiter
11.2 R⊕ reference
Provenance
Underlying measurements and references
Evidence Summary
Rows
11
Refs
11
Methods
1
Discoverystable
Facilitystable
Periodstable
Radiusdisputed
Massdisputed
Eq. Tempdisputed
| Year | Method | Facility | Telescope | Period | Radius | Mass | Eq. Temp | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | — | — | — | Patel & Espinoza 2022 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | 11.50 Rearth | — | — | Petigura et al. 2018 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | 12.50 Rearth | 267.0 Mearth | 682 K | Shporer et al. 2017 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2023 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | — | — | — | Pope et al. 2016 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | 12.06 Rearth | — | 619 K | Livingston et al. 2018 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | 11.80 Rearth | 321.0 Mearth | 696 K | Thygesen et al. 2023 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | 11.55 Rearth | — | — | Kruse et al. 2019 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | 10.44 Rearth | — | 592 K | ExoFOP |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | — | — | — | Ivshina & Winn 2022 |
| 2017 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 20.27 day | — | — | — | Barros et al. 2016 |