As seen from Earth, Kepler-16b ceased transiting the dimmer star in 2014, and stopped crossing the second, brighter star in 2018. After that, Kepler-16b will remain undetectable using the …

Jun 25, 2025 · Kepler-16 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 0.333 Jupiters, it takes 228.8 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.7048 AU from its star. Its …

Sep 15, 2011 · The planet, called Kepler-16b, is a cold world, with a gaseous surface, but it circles two stars. The largest of the two stars, a K dwarf, is about 69 percent the mass of our …

Observations and an independent mass measurement of Kepler-16 (AB) b - the first circumbinary planet detected with radial velocities.

Both stars are smaller than the Sun; the primary, Kepler-16A, is a K-type main-sequence star and the secondary, Kepler-16B, is an M-type red dwarf. They are separated by 0.23 AU, and …

The discovery of Kepler-16b was the first fully charcterized (mass, radius, and orbit determined) detection of a circumbinary planet (CBP) -- a planet that circles two stars (a review of CBP …

Jun 3, 2025 · A planet dubbed Kepler-16 b, some 245 light-years from Earth, was found to orbit two stars. It was one of more than 2,700 confirmed exoplanets – planets beyond our solar …

May 1, 2019 · We describe the discovery of Kepler-16b, the first widely accepted detection of a circumbinary planet.

Kepler-16b (formally Kepler-16 (AB)-b) is a Saturn -mass exoplanet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice. It orbits a binary star, Kepler-16, with a period of 229 days.

Dec 13, 2020 · Kepler-16b is the first circumbinary planet discovered around a pair of low-mass and main-sequence stars using the Kepler space telescope (Doyle et al. 2011). Data from the …