Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.63 Earth radii
A mass of 3.29 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.24 g
An orbital period of 13.245 days
Semi-major axis 0.1092 AU
Equilibrium temperature 887 K (614 °C)
Distance from Earth 1,927.90 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.331
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 33,998,543 years

Kepler-1079 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.63 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.145 R♃

Mass

3.29 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.010 M♃

Density

4.17 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.24 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.331

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

#517of 1176

top 43.9%

This planet

1.63R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-202 b 1.63 R⊕ Kepler-319 b 1.63 R⊕ Kepler-208 b 1.63 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1079 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.63	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.29	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	4.17	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.24	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	195.35	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 268932150

System

Kepler-1079

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.630 R⊕ · percentile 55 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.290 M⊕ · percentile 50 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 13.25 d · percentile 73 / cohort 1164

Distance 591.10 pc · percentile 53 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.331 · percentile 45 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

13.245 days

Semi-major axis

0.1092 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

88.59 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.25 Earth days (3.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1092 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.016 %

Duration

4.367 h

Impact parameter b

0.078

Rp / R★

0.011328

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,975.0065

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 156 ppm lasting ≈ 4.37 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.011328

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

23.371

Impact parameter (b)

0.078

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,975.0065

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.18500

Eq. Temperature

887K

(614 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

195.35

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.331

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1512 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1410 b · Super-Earth Kepler-560 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1389 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1450 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1544 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1459 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1638 b · Super-Earth Kepler-737 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1185 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1178 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1040 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: Kepler-1079

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,758 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.61 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.360 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.080 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.21

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.210 dex

Stellar density

0.892 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

591.10 parsec

Light-years 1,927.90 ly

V-band magnitude

12.78 mag

Voyager-speed travel 33,998,543 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

15.866 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.17 mas/yr

PM Declination

-15.54 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.344 · y = -0.607 · z = 0.717

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 299.54958° · Dec 45.76968°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.428° · 8.536°

Ecliptic λ, β

321.693° · 64.000°

HTM-20 index

-1939735050