Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1037 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1037, located approximately 1,457.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.28 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.18 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.33 g
  • An orbital period of 1.064 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0198 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,650 K (1377 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,457.64 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.175
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 25,705,424 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1037 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.28 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.114 R♃
Mass
2.18 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.71 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.33 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.175
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

#1117of 1176

top 94.9%

This planet

1.28R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1037 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.18317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.711.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.332.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001,015.430.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 272282253

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2080563320187721344

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2080563320187721344

System

Kepler-1037

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.280 R⊕ · percentile 4 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.180 M⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.06 d · percentile 6 / cohort 1164
Distance 446.91 pc · percentile 43 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.175 · percentile 8 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.064 days
Semi-major axis
0.0198 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
86.11 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.06 Earth days (0.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0198 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.027 %

Duration

1.076 h

Impact parameter b

0.466

Rp / R★

0.014673

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.5247

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 266 ppm lasting ≈ 1.08 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.014673

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

7.620

Impact parameter (b)

0.466

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.5247

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.04430

Eq. Temperature

1,650K

(1377 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,015.43

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.175

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-1037

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,105 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.13 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.780 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.820 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.570 dex

Stellar density

7.385 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
446.91 parsec
Light-years 1,457.64 ly
V-band magnitude
14.48 mag
Voyager-speed travel 25,705,424 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.114.914.57B14.48V14.23Gaia14.23Kepler13.64TESS14.94Sloan g14.14Sloan r13.93Sloan i13.82Sloan z12.82J12.33H12.25K12.21W112.28W212.49W39.05W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.209 mas

Total Proper Motion

16.358 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.26 mas/yr

PM Declination

15.79 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.302 · y = -0.609 · z = 0.733

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.34103° · Dec 47.17093°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.571° · 11.149°

Ecliptic λ, β

318.458° · 66.235°

HTM-20 index

-2042208983

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