Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1039 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1039, located approximately 1,001.0 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 0.935 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0171 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 2,080 K (1807 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,001.01 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.129
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,652,729 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1039 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 0.129
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-1039 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⊕)1.00668.130.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 274020852

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2079404572371719680

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2079404572371719680

System

Kepler-1039

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.460 R⊕ · percentile 29 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.730 M⊕ · percentile 27 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 0.93 d · percentile 5 / cohort 1164
Distance 306.91 pc · percentile 32 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.129 · percentile 2 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.935 days
Semi-major axis
0.0171 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
78.54 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 22.4 hours long on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0171 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.028 %

Duration

1.417 h

Impact parameter b

0.660

Rp / R★

0.017736

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.5819

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 283 ppm lasting ≈ 1.42 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017736

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

3.900

Impact parameter (b)

0.660

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.5819

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.05580

Eq. Temperature

2,080K

(1807 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

668.13

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.129

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-1039

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,870 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.37 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.740 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.790 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.600 dex

Stellar density

2.170 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
306.91 parsec
Light-years 1,001.01 ly
V-band magnitude
14.44 mag
Voyager-speed travel 17,652,729 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.315.815.78B14.44V14.10Gaia14.15Kepler13.40TESS15.09Sloan g14.06Sloan r13.74Sloan i13.54Sloan z12.42J11.86H11.75K11.71W111.78W212.13W39.25W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.230 mas

Total Proper Motion

19.897 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.93 mas/yr

PM Declination

-19.28 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.334 · y = -0.619 · z = 0.711

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 298.32662° · Dec 45.31542°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.596° · 9.050°

Ecliptic λ, β

319.484° · 63.967°

HTM-20 index

1107831366

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