Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1032 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1032, located approximately 2,195.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.87 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.16 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.19 g
  • An orbital period of 3.290 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0361 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 802 K (529 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,195.06 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.351
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 38,709,925 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1032 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.87 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.167 R♃
Mass
4.16 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.50 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.19 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.351
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

#169of 1176

top 14.3%

This planet

1.87R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1032 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.16317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.501.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.192.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00176.140.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 122139228

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2101146757674573568

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2101146757674573568

System

Kepler-1032

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.870 R⊕ · percentile 85 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.160 M⊕ · percentile 79 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 3.29 d · percentile 25 / cohort 1164
Distance 673.01 pc · percentile 59 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.351 · percentile 50 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.290 days
Semi-major axis
0.0361 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.30 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.29 Earth days (0.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0361 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.071 %

Duration

1.547 h

Impact parameter b

0.203

Rp / R★

0.023583

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.1567

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 707 ppm lasting ≈ 1.55 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.023583

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

16.420

Impact parameter (b)

0.203

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.1567

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.05360

Eq. Temperature

802K

(529 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

176.14

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.351

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.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Transit timing variations

Gravitational interactions from neighbours have been detected.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1032

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,647 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.86 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.710 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.770 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.620 dex

Stellar density

7.736 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
673.01 parsec
Light-years 2,195.06 ly
V-band magnitude
16.01 mag
Voyager-speed travel 38,709,925 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.217.617.57B16.01V15.80Gaia15.75Kepler15.07TESS16.75Sloan g15.71Sloan r15.33Sloan i15.06Sloan z13.93J13.36H13.30K13.16W113.15W212.30W39.21W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.462 mas

Total Proper Motion

7.179 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.93 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.22 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.261 · y = -0.719 · z = 0.644

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 289.93088° · Dec 40.09771°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.998° · 12.116°

Ecliptic λ, β

302.863° · 61.282°

HTM-20 index

-821076018

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