Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1007 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1007, located approximately 1,190.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.44 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.67 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 5.185 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0480 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 652 K (379 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,190.47 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.469
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 20,993,927 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1007 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.44 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.128 R♃
Mass
2.67 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
4.91 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.469
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#850of 1176

top 72.2%

This planet

1.44R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1007 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.67317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.911.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0042.620.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 272074477

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2080381625890666496

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2080381625890666496

System

Kepler-1007

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.440 R⊕ · percentile 27 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.670 M⊕ · percentile 25 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.19 d · percentile 42 / cohort 1164
Distance 365.00 pc · percentile 37 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.469 · percentile 70 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.185 days
Semi-major axis
0.0480 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.94 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.19 Earth days (1.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0480 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.045 %

Duration

2.177 h

Impact parameter b

0.923

Rp / R★

0.019213

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.8794

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 447 ppm lasting ≈ 2.18 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019213

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

18.865

Impact parameter (b)

0.923

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.8794

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.13200

Eq. Temperature

652K

(379 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

42.62

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.469

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1007

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,587 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.17 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.700 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.730 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.620 dex

Stellar density

4.456 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
365.00 parsec
Light-years 1,190.47 ly
V-band magnitude
14.98 mag
Voyager-speed travel 20,993,927 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.516.316.33B14.98V14.73Gaia14.74Kepler14.00TESS15.79Sloan g14.67Sloan r14.30Sloan i14.08Sloan z12.94J12.33H12.22K12.16W112.24W211.85W39.53W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.165 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.309 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.61 mas/yr

PM Declination

-8.09 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.305 · y = -0.627 · z = 0.717

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.90653° · Dec 45.80909°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.204° · 10.772°

Ecliptic λ, β

316.393° · 65.130°

HTM-20 index

-1986839112

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