Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1064 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1064, located approximately 1,219.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.55 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.02 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 16.541 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1183 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 570 K (297 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,219.82 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.521
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 21,511,585 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1064 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.55 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.138 R♃
Mass
3.02 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.46 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.521
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

#652of 1176

top 55.4%

This planet

1.55R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1064 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.02317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.461.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0024.870.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137315852

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2051807620790721792

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2051807620790721792

System

Kepler-1064

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.550 R⊕ · percentile 43 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.020 M⊕ · percentile 39 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 16.54 d · percentile 80 / cohort 1164
Distance 374.00 pc · percentile 38 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.521 · percentile 75 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
16.541 days
Semi-major axis
0.1183 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.92 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 16.54 Earth days (4.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1183 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.037 %

Duration

2.544 h

Impact parameter b

0.031

Rp / R★

0.017966

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.9536

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 370 ppm lasting ≈ 2.54 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017966

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

50.540

Impact parameter (b)

0.031

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.9536

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.31600

Eq. Temperature

570K

(297 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

24.87

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.521

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-1064

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,153 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.89 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.790 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.850 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.570 dex

Stellar density

8.928 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
374.00 parsec
Light-years 1,219.82 ly
V-band magnitude
13.96 mag
Voyager-speed travel 21,511,585 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

9.016.216.20U14.53B13.96V13.74Gaia13.76Kepler13.18TESS14.35Sloan g13.65Sloan r16.16Sloan i13.30Sloan z12.33J11.89H11.82K11.66W111.75W211.76W39.02W4

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

33.675 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-11.44 mas/yr

PM Declination

-31.67 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.293 · y = -0.735 · z = 0.611

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.74158° · Dec 37.68881°

Galactic ℓ, b

70.427° · 9.790°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.204° · 58.573°

HTM-20 index

1953655948

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