Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1074 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1074, located approximately 818.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.25 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.10 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.34 g
  • An orbital period of 5.946 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0536 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 568 K (295 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 818.05 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.547
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 14,426,394 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1074 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.25 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.112 R♃
Mass
2.10 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.91 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.34 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.547
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

#1161of 1176

top 98.6%

This planet

1.25R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1074 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.10317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.911.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.342.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0027.570.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 164724987

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2107240324132394496

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2107240324132394496

System

Kepler-1074

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.250 R⊕ · percentile 0 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.100 M⊕ · percentile 2 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.95 d · percentile 47 / cohort 1164
Distance 250.82 pc · percentile 27 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.547 · percentile 77 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.946 days
Semi-major axis
0.0536 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.37 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.95 Earth days (1.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0536 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.040 %

Duration

2.174 h

Impact parameter b

0.229

Rp / R★

0.019844

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.9930

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 401 ppm lasting ≈ 2.17 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019844

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

20.870

Impact parameter (b)

0.229

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.9930

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.21400

Eq. Temperature

568K

(295 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

27.57

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.547

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-1074

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,002 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.55 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.570 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.600 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.700 dex

Stellar density

3.872 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
250.82 parsec
Light-years 818.05 ly
V-band magnitude
15.60 mag
Voyager-speed travel 14,426,394 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.917.317.28B15.60V15.01Gaia15.03Kepler14.06TESS16.41Sloan g15.05Sloan r14.43Sloan i14.09Sloan z12.88J12.21H12.07K11.95W111.96W211.95W38.90W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.958 mas

Total Proper Motion

30.079 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

18.78 mas/yr

PM Declination

23.50 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.173 · y = -0.670 · z = 0.722

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 284.47669° · Dec 46.25268°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.252° · 18.182°

Ecliptic λ, β

297.864° · 68.296°

HTM-20 index

-1559366869

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