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EPIC 201912552

The planetary system EPIC 201912552 hosts at least 2 planets.

  System parameters
Primary system name EPIC 201912552
Alternative system names K2-18
Right ascension 11 30 14.5176
Declination +07 35 18.2572
Distance [parsec] 34±4
Distance [lightyears] 111±13
Number of stars in system 1
Number of planets in system 2

ArchitectureArchitecture of the system

This list shows all planetary and stellar components in the system. It gives a quick overview of the hierarchical architecture.

  •  EPIC 201912552, stellar object
    •  EPIC 201912552 b, planet, semi-major axis: 0.143±0.006 AU
      •  K2-18 c, planet, semi-major axis: 0.060±0.003 AU

      PlanetsPlanets in the system

      This table lists all planets in the system EPIC 201912552.

        EPIC 201912552 b K2-18 c
      Alternative planet names EPIC 201912552.01, K2-18 b, Gaia DR2 3910747531814692736 b EPIC 201912552 c
      Description This planet was discovered by the Kepler spacecraft during its extended K2 mission, Campaign 1. This planet may be an interesting target for atmospheric studies of transiting exoplanets. Its density lies between that of Earth-like and Neptune-like planets. K2-18 c is a non-transiting planet identified in radial velocity measurements of the K2-18 system.
      Lists Confirmed planets
      Mass [Mjup] 0.025±0.006 0.024±0.004
      Mass [Mearth] 8.0±1.9 7.5±1.3
      Radius [Rjup] 0.212±0.020 N/A
      Radius [Rearth] 2.4±0.2 N/A
      Orbital period [days] 32.9396±0.0001 8.962±0.008
      Semi-major axis [AU] 0.143±0.006 0.060±0.003
      Eccentricity < 0.4300 < 0.4700
      Equilibrium temperature [K] N/A N/A
      Discovery method transit RV
      Discovery year 2015 2017
      Last updated [yy/mm/dd] 17/12/16

      starStars in the system

      This table lists all stars in the system EPIC 201912552.

        EPIC 201912552
      Alternative star names K2-18, 2MASS J11301450+0735180, Gaia DR2 3910747531814692736
      Mass [MSun] 0.36±0.05
      Radius [RSun] 0.41±0.04
      Age [Gyr] N/A
      Metallicity [Fe/H] 0.09±0.09
      Temperature [K] 3457±39
      Spectral type M2.8
      Visual magnitude 13.50±0.05

      Planet sizes

      The following plot shows the approximate sizes of the planets in this system The Solar System planets are shown as a comparison. Note that unless the radius has been determined through a transit observation, this is only an approximation (see Lissauer et al. 2011b).

      PlutoMercuryMarsVenusEarthNeptuneUranusSaturnJupiterEPIC 201912552 bK2-18 c

      Habitable zone

      The following plot shows the approximate location of the planets in this system with respect to the habitable zone (green) and the size of the star (red). This is only an estimate, using the star's spectral type and mass. Note that if no green band is shown in the plot, then the planet's orbit is far outside the habitable zone. The equations of Selsis, Kasting et al are used to draw the inner and outer boundaries.

      Habitable zoneEPIC 201912552 bK2-18 c

      referencesScientific references and contributors

      Links to scientific papers and other data sources

      history https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2017/12/aa31558-17/aa31558-17.html
      history http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad
      history http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
      history http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.07866v1

      This table lists all links which are relevant to this particular system. Note that this is just a summary. More references to the scientific publications and comments can be found in the commit messages. To see these, head over the github or click here to directly go to the git blame output of this system. In the left column of the output you can see the commit message corresponding to each parameter. It also lists the date of the last commit and the person making the changes. Within the commit message, you will find a link to the scientific publication where the data is taken from. Note that this is a new feature and not all system parameters might have a reference associated with it yet. Please help making this catalogue better and contribute data or references!

      Open Exoplanet Catalogue contributors

      Contributor E-mail Number of commits
      Andrew Tribick ajtribick(at)googlemail.com 2
      Christian Sturm Sol-d(at)users.noreply.github.com 4
      Hanno Rein hanno(at)hanno-rein.de 3

      This table lists all people who have contributed to the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. Please consider contributing! Click here to find out how. You can also view all commits contributing to this file on github.

      xmlData download

      You can download the xml file corresponding to this planetary system, which is part of the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. All information on this page has been directly generated from this XML file. You can also download the entire catalogue over at github. If you prefer to download the dataset as an ASCII tables, you might find the oec_tables repository useful.

      correctionsCorrections

      If you spot an error or if you can contribute additional data to this entry, please send an e-mail to exoplanet@hanno-rein.de. Please include the corrected xml file and a reference to where the new data is coming from, ideally a scientific paper. If you are fluent with git and github, you can also create a pull request or open an issue on the Open Exoplanet Catalogue repository. Please include the reference to the relevant scientific paper in your commit message.