Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1093 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1093, located approximately 3,499.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.95 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.46 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.17 g
  • An orbital period of 25.082 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1754 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 776 K (503 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 3,499.26 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.358
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 61,709,491 years

1 sibling around Kepler-1093

Kepler-1093 b shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-1093 b this Super-Earth 1.95 4.46 25.082 776 2016
Kepler-1093 c Super-Earth 1.96 4.50 89.722 508 2016

Kepler-1093 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.95 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.174 R♃
Mass
4.46 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.014 M♃
Density
3.31 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.17 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.358
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

#67of 1176

top 5.6%

This planet

1.95R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1093 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.46317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.311.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.172.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0098.800.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 120420344

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2104037962156847744

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2104037962156847744

System

Kepler-1093

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.950 R⊕ · percentile 94 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.460 M⊕ · percentile 86 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 25.08 d · percentile 89 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,072.88 pc · percentile 85 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.358 · percentile 52 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
25.082 days
Semi-major axis
0.1754 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
86.89 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 25.08 Earth days (6.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1754 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.024 %

Duration

6.357 h

Impact parameter b

0.119

Rp / R★

0.014755

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,967.1334

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 245 ppm lasting ≈ 6.36 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.014755

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

30.380

Impact parameter (b)

0.119

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,967.1334

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.16400

Eq. Temperature

776K

(503 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

98.80

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.358

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

Host System: Kepler-1093

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,166 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.95 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.200 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.130 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.330 dex

Stellar density

0.370 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,072.88 parsec
Light-years 3,499.26 ly
V-band magnitude
13.78 mag
Voyager-speed travel 61,709,491 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.314.314.31B13.78V13.81Gaia13.84Kepler13.42TESS14.17Sloan g13.81Sloan r13.70Sloan i13.57Sloan z12.81J12.49H12.48K12.20W112.27W212.10W39.28W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.903 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.305 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.98 mas/yr

PM Declination

3.87 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.194 · y = -0.724 · z = 0.662

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 284.97803° · Dec 41.42021°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.682° · 16.081°

Ecliptic λ, β

295.765° · 63.526°

HTM-20 index

1900342203

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