Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1062 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1062, located approximately 1,296.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.76 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.75 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.21 g
  • An orbital period of 9.304 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0748 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 583 K (310 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,296.32 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.490
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 22,860,661 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1062 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.76 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.157 R♃
Mass
3.75 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.012 M♃
Density
3.78 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.490
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

#315of 1176

top 26.7%

This planet

1.76R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1062 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.75317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.781.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.212.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0033.760.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 120043084

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2103714637018491136

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2103714637018491136

System

Kepler-1062

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.760 R⊕ · percentile 73 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.750 M⊕ · percentile 66 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 9.30 d · percentile 63 / cohort 1164
Distance 397.46 pc · percentile 39 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.490 · percentile 72 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
9.304 days
Semi-major axis
0.0748 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.16 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 9.30 Earth days (2.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0748 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.066 %

Duration

1.891 h

Impact parameter b

0.219

Rp / R★

0.022779

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,973.3401

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 659 ppm lasting ≈ 1.89 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.022779

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

37.550

Impact parameter (b)

0.219

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,973.3401

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.18800

Eq. Temperature

583K

(310 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

33.76

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.490

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.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1062

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,597 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.45 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.700 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.750 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.11

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.620 dex

Stellar density

11.574 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
397.46 parsec
Light-years 1,296.32 ly
V-band magnitude
15.10 mag
Voyager-speed travel 22,860,661 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

8.918.418.38U16.52B15.10V14.81Gaia14.80Kepler14.07TESS15.87Sloan g14.74Sloan r14.33Sloan i14.10Sloan z13.03J12.44H12.33K12.16W112.21W212.19W38.88W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.487 mas

Total Proper Motion

2.365 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.71 mas/yr

PM Declination

-1.63 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.181 · y = -0.730 · z = 0.659

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 283.89942° · Dec 41.22159°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.174° · 16.758°

Ecliptic λ, β

293.895° · 63.512°

HTM-20 index

1464698742

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