Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1019 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1019, located approximately 633.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.46 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.73 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.28 g
  • An orbital period of 1.411 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0221 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,164 K (891 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 633.34 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.255
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 11,168,884 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1019 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.46 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.130 R♃
Mass
2.73 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.82 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.28 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.255
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

#819of 1176

top 69.6%

This planet

1.46R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1019 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.73317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.821.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.282.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00330.250.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 164556761

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2107596978215473024

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2107596978215473024

System

Kepler-1019

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.460 R⊕ · percentile 29 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.730 M⊕ · percentile 27 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.41 d · percentile 8 / cohort 1164
Distance 194.18 pc · percentile 24 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.255 · percentile 24 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.411 days
Semi-major axis
0.0221 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
78.73 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.41 Earth days (0.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0221 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.040 %

Duration

1.391 h

Impact parameter b

0.812

Rp / R★

0.019962

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.6423

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 396 ppm lasting ≈ 1.39 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019962

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

4.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.812

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.6423

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.11400

Eq. Temperature

1,164K

(891 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

330.25

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.255

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. 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-1019

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,433 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.55 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.670 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.700 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.640 dex

Stellar density

2.248 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
194.18 parsec
Light-years 633.34 ly
V-band magnitude
13.88 mag
Voyager-speed travel 11,168,884 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.815.84B13.88V13.59Gaia13.59Kepler12.85TESS14.69Sloan g13.55Sloan r13.12Sloan i12.92Sloan z11.77J11.17H11.00K10.96W111.02W210.82W39.43W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

5.121 mas

Total Proper Motion

18.763 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

3.83 mas/yr

PM Declination

-18.37 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.161 · y = -0.660 · z = 0.734

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 283.71759° · Dec 47.20438°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.006° · 18.998°

Ecliptic λ, β

297.183° · 69.352°

HTM-20 index

-1025365551

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