Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 3.18 Earth radii
A mass of 10.20 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.01 g
An orbital period of 78.100 days
Semi-major axis 0.3625 AU
Equilibrium temperature 480 K (207 °C)
Distance from Earth 4,210.71 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.467
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 74,255,806 years

Kepler-1094 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

3.18 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.284 R♃

Mass

10.20 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.032 M♃

Density

1.74 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.01 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.467

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

#367of 1978

top 18.5%

This planet

3.18R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

TOI-2458 c 3.18 R⊕ Kepler-1502 b 3.18 R⊕ NGTS-4 b 3.18 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1094 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	3.18	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	10.20	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.74	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.01	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	10.34	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137549134

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2051937019565051520

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2051937019565051520

System

Kepler-1094

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 3.180 R⊕ · percentile 81 / cohort 1978

Mass 10.200 M⊕ · percentile 74 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 78.10 d · percentile 91 / cohort 1946

Distance 1,291.01 pc · percentile 88 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.467 · percentile 65 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

78.100 days

Semi-major axis

0.3625 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.51 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 78.10 Earth days (21.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.3625 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.066 %

Duration

8.322 h

Impact parameter b

0.850

Rp / R★

0.024437

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,972.4959

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 657 ppm lasting ≈ 8.32 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.024437

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

40.100

Impact parameter (b)

0.850

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,972.4959

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.28100

Eq. Temperature

480K

(207 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

10.34

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.467

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-1094

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,112 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.09 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.210 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.140 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.330 dex

Stellar density

0.962 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,291.01 parsec

Light-years 4,210.71 ly

V-band magnitude

15.32 mag

Voyager-speed travel 74,255,806 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.747 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.742 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-8.07 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.45 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.298 · y = -0.726 · z = 0.619

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.30121° · Dec 38.26700°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.153° · 9.659°

Ecliptic λ, β

305.340° · 59.000°

HTM-20 index

1276608957