Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1089 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1089, located approximately 845.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.83 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.01 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.20 g
  • An orbital period of 5.132 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0497 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 584 K (311 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 845.81 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.483
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 14,915,926 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1089 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.83 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.163 R♃
Mass
4.01 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.60 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.20 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.483
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

#221of 1176

top 18.7%

This planet

1.83R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1089 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.01317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.601.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.202.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0026.270.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 350810654

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2129928884010551936

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2129928884010551936

System

Kepler-1089

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.830 R⊕ · percentile 80 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.010 M⊕ · percentile 74 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.13 d · percentile 41 / cohort 1164
Distance 259.33 pc · percentile 28 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.483 · percentile 71 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.132 days
Semi-major axis
0.0497 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.54 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.13 Earth days (1.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0497 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.096 %

Duration

1.631 h

Impact parameter b

0.217

Rp / R★

0.034000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.1593

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 962 ppm lasting ≈ 1.63 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.034000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

27.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.217

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.1593

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.19200

Eq. Temperature

584K

(311 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

26.27

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.483

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-1089

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,753 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.72 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.490 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.520 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.09

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.760 dex

Stellar density

4.535 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
259.33 parsec
Light-years 845.81 ly
V-band magnitude
16.23 mag
Voyager-speed travel 14,915,926 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.318.618.61B16.23V15.60Gaia15.54Kepler14.54TESS17.06Sloan g15.76Sloan r14.88Sloan i14.47Sloan z13.26J12.63H12.39K12.12W112.14W211.86W39.28W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.828 mas

Total Proper Motion

28.641 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-15.62 mas/yr

PM Declination

24.01 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.235 · y = -0.610 · z = 0.757

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.09265° · Dec 49.19017°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.850° · 15.179°

Ecliptic λ, β

312.308° · 69.550°

HTM-20 index

871415158

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