Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.39 Earth radii
A mass of 6.30 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.10 g
An orbital period of 16.571 days
Semi-major axis 0.1210 AU
Equilibrium temperature 614 K (341 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,037.82 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.418
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 35,937,001 years

Kepler-1014 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.39 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.213 R♃

Mass

6.30 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.020 M♃

Density

2.54 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.10 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.418

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

#1343of 1978

top 67.8%

This planet

2.39R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-193 b 2.39 R⊕ Kepler-152 c 2.39 R⊕ Kepler-238 c 2.39 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1014 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.39	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	6.30	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.54	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.10	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	33.48	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 164883912

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2105933417124075264

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2105933417124075264

System

Kepler-1014

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.390 R⊕ · percentile 31 / cohort 1978

Mass 6.300 M⊕ · percentile 30 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 16.57 d · percentile 55 / cohort 1946

Distance 624.80 pc · percentile 54 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.418 · percentile 56 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

16.571 days

Semi-major axis

0.1210 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.16 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 16.57 Earth days (4.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1210 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.067 %

Duration

2.961 h

Impact parameter b

0.690

Rp / R★

0.025628

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.9028

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 666 ppm lasting ≈ 2.96 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.025628

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

31.900

Impact parameter (b)

0.690

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.9028

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.19400

Eq. Temperature

614K

(341 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

33.48

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.418

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1512 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1410 b · Super-Earth Kepler-560 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1389 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1450 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1544 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1459 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1638 b · Super-Earth Kepler-737 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1185 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1178 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1040 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: Kepler-1014

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,388 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.79 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.840 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.880 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.540 dex

Stellar density

3.670 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

624.80 parsec

Light-years 2,037.82 ly

V-band magnitude

14.87 mag

Voyager-speed travel 35,937,001 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.572 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.892 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-7.43 mas/yr

PM Declination

-9.28 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.187 · y = -0.693 · z = 0.696

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.12199° · Dec 44.11053°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.327° · 16.987°

Ecliptic λ, β

297.545° · 66.110°

HTM-20 index

84471458