Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2014

Kepler-114 b

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf Kepler-114, located approximately 846.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.26 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1.09 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.69 g
  • An orbital period of 5.189 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0530 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 586 K (313 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 846.48 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.482
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 14,927,717 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

2 siblings around Kepler-114

Kepler-114 b shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-114 b this Super-Earth 1.26 1.09 5.189 586 2014
Kepler-114 c Super-Earth 1.60 2.80 8.041 507 2013
Kepler-114 d Sub-Neptune 2.53 3.90 11.776 446 2013

Kepler-114 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.26 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.112 R♃
Mass
1.09 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.003 M♃
Density
2.53 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.69 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.482
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2014
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1149of 1176

top 97.6%

This planet

1.26R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-114 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001.09317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.531.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.692.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0092.540.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 1.090 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 27011135

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2128939873302216320

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2128939873302216320

System

Kepler-114

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.260 R⊕ · percentile 2 / cohort 1176
Mass 1.090 M⊕ · percentile 0 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.19 d · percentile 42 / cohort 1164
Distance 259.53 pc · percentile 28 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.482 · percentile 71 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.189 days
Semi-major axis
0.0530 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.39 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.19 Earth days (1.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0530 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.035 %

Duration

2.435 h

Impact parameter b

0.690

Rp / R★

0.016875

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,978.3632

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 354 ppm lasting ≈ 2.44 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016875

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

16.940

Impact parameter (b)

0.690

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,978.3632

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.20400

Eq. Temperature

586K

(313 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

92.54

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.482

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

Rowe et al. 2014

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2014-03

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-114

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

4,605 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.69 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.667 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.770 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.23

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.650 dex

Stellar density

3.413 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
259.53 parsec
Light-years 846.48 ly
V-band magnitude
13.96 mag
Voyager-speed travel 14,927,717 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.815.014.97B13.96V13.71Gaia13.74Kepler13.02TESS14.68Sloan g13.66Sloan r13.33Sloan i13.16Sloan z12.04J11.47H11.37K11.31W111.40W211.25W38.83W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.824 mas

Total Proper Motion

64.544 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

12.81 mas/yr

PM Declination

63.26 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.272 · y = -0.607 · z = 0.747

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 294.12148° · Dec 48.34980°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.944° · 13.015°

Ecliptic λ, β

316.326° · 67.946°

HTM-20 index

-1856230514

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