Temperature
5769 K
5505.1 to 6120
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Kepler-940
Unclassified star • 1260.8 pc
Records
13
literature rows
Planets
1
system count
References
14
distinct source labels
TIC: TIC 270959279
Approximate color
from effective temperature
Canonical Summary
Adopted host values from one source row
Values come from the row with the most populated summary measurements. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.
Stellar source: Morton et al. 2016 • System source: TICv8
Mass
0.97 Msun
0.97 to 1.07
Radius
0.96 Rsun
0.61 to 1.03
Age
3.63 Gyr
0.30 to 3.63
Distance
1260.8 pc
single adopted value
Planets
1
Stable across source rows
Scale Comparison
Radius against the Sun
Current adopted radius: 0.96 R☉ (circles scaled linearly by radius)
Sun
1.0 R☉ baseline
Kepler-940
0.96 R☉
System Layout
Known planets
1 planets linked to this host
Kepler-940 b
Transit
◌
Discovery
2016
Period
59.62 days
Radius
3.34 R⊕
Mass
—
Eq. Temp
—
Kepler-940 b: A Neptune-like World in a Distant System
Kepler-940 is a star located 4110 light-years away, and it hosts exactly one known planet. The host star is 3.63 billion years old and has a mass of 0.97 solar masses, a radius of 0.96 solar radii, and a temperature of 5770 K. These stellar measurements describe the star itself rather than the wider system.
The planet Kepler-940 b was discovered in 2016 by the transit method, in which a planet passes in front of its star from our viewpoint and causes a small dip in observed brightness. Kepler-940 b completes one orbit in 59.6 days, and its radius is 3.34 Earth radii. That radius estimate is larger than Earth's. As a Neptune-like planet, it falls within a size class that reaches 4 times Earth's radius.
Kepler-940 b is the only planet known to orbit this host, so the system's known planetary inventory consists of this single Neptune-like world.
Provenance
Underlying measurements and references
Evidence Summary
Rows
13
Stellar refs
13
System refs
1
Distancestable
Parallaxstable
Temperaturedisputed
Massdisputed
Radiusdisputed
Agedisputed
Luminositydisputed
Surface Gravitydisputed
Metallicitydisputed
| ST TEFF | ST MASS | ST RAD | ST AGE | ST LUM | ST SPECTYPE | SY DIST | Stellar Ref | System Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5531 | — | 0.99 | — | -0.09 | — | 1260.8 | Gaia DR2 | TICv8 |
| 6108 | 1.07 | 1.00 | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Q1-Q12 KOI Table | TICv8 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Q1-Q17 DR25 Supplemental KOI Table | TICv8 |
| 6095 | 1.06 | 0.96 | 0.30 | — | — | 1260.8 | Q1-Q8 KOI Table | TICv8 |
| 5891 | — | 0.61 | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Latham et al. 2005 | TICv8 |
| 5891 | 1.01 | 0.92 | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Batalha et al. 2013 | TICv8 |
| 6108 | 1.07 | 1.00 | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Q1-Q17 DR24 KOI Table | TICv8 |
| 5891 | — | 0.92 | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Q1-Q6 KOI Table | TICv8 |
| 5769 | 0.97 | 0.96 | 3.63 | — | — | 1260.8 | Morton et al. 2016 | TICv8 |
| 5505.1 | 0.97 | 1.03 | — | -0.06 | — | 1260.8 | TICv8 | TICv8 |
| 6108 | 1.07 | 1.00 | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Q1-Q17 DR25 KOI Table | TICv8 |
| 6108 | 1.07 | 1.00 | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Q1-Q16 KOI Table | TICv8 |
| 6120 | — | 0.88 | — | — | — | 1260.8 | Berger et al. 2018 | TICv8 |