The KELT-20 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 444.96 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 1.76 solar masses |
Radius | 1.57 solar radiae |
Temperature | 8720 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | -0.29 decimal exponent |
Age | 0.6 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, KELT-20 b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 1074.901 Earth masses |
Density | 0.806 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 19.515 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.0542 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 3.474 days |
Discovery Method | Transit |
Discovery Facility | KELT-North |
Discovery Telescope | Mamiya 645 80mm f/1.9 |
Discovery Instrument | Apogee 4K CCD Sensor |
Discovery Date | 2017-11 |
Reference | Lund et al. 2017 |