Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1136 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1136, located approximately 1,602.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.64 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.33 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.24 g
  • An orbital period of 2.362 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0299 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 922 K (649 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,602.75 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.317
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 28,264,497 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1136 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.64 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.146 R♃
Mass
3.33 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.15 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.24 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.317
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

#495of 1176

top 42.0%

This planet

1.64R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1136 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.33317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.151.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.242.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00150.060.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 164671623

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2106617691313437568

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2106617691313437568

System

Kepler-1136

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.640 R⊕ · percentile 56 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.330 M⊕ · percentile 51 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.36 d · percentile 15 / cohort 1164
Distance 491.41 pc · percentile 47 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.317 · percentile 41 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.362 days
Semi-major axis
0.0299 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.97 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.36 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0299 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.059 %

Duration

1.223 h

Impact parameter b

0.007

Rp / R★

0.021683

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.2393

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 587 ppm lasting ≈ 1.22 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021683

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

14.740

Impact parameter (b)

0.007

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.2393

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.06080

Eq. Temperature

922K

(649 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

150.06

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.317

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-1136

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,512 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.24 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.680 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.720 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.630 dex

Stellar density

11.555 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
491.41 parsec
Light-years 1,602.75 ly
V-band magnitude
16.04 mag
Voyager-speed travel 28,264,497 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.617.117.06B16.04V15.64Gaia15.66Kepler14.92TESS16.70Sloan g15.62Sloan r15.21Sloan i14.92Sloan z13.87J13.23H13.17K13.00W113.08W212.73W39.56W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.007 mas

Total Proper Motion

13.907 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

12.51 mas/yr

PM Declination

-6.07 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.175 · y = -0.695 · z = 0.698

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 284.10784° · Dec 44.24580°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.183° · 17.714°

Ecliptic λ, β

295.879° · 66.422°

HTM-20 index

1031130321

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