Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1143 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1143, located approximately 1,810.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.67 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.43 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 2.889 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0371 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 976 K (703 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,810.78 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.296
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 31,933,143 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around Kepler-1143

Kepler-1143 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-1143 b this Super-Earth 1.67 3.43 2.889 976 2016
Kepler-1143 c Sub-Neptune 3.60 12.60 210.631 234 2016

Kepler-1143 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.67 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.149 R♃
Mass
3.43 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.05 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.296
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

#452of 1176

top 38.4%

This planet

1.67R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1143 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.43317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.051.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00173.060.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 121215172

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2100405381897402496

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2100405381897402496

System

Kepler-1143

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.670 R⊕ · percentile 61 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.430 M⊕ · percentile 55 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.89 d · percentile 20 / cohort 1164
Distance 555.19 pc · percentile 51 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.296 · percentile 36 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.889 days
Semi-major axis
0.0371 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
85.23 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.89 Earth days (0.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0371 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.040 %

Duration

1.554 h

Impact parameter b

0.206

Rp / R★

0.019745

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.1528

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 402 ppm lasting ≈ 1.55 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019745

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

14.200

Impact parameter (b)

0.206

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.1528

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.06680

Eq. Temperature

976K

(703 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

173.06

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.296

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-1143

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,053 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.79 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.770 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.810 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.580 dex

Stellar density

1.621 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
555.19 parsec
Light-years 1,810.78 ly
V-band magnitude
15.49 mag
Voyager-speed travel 31,933,143 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

8.818.018.01U16.42B15.49V15.19Gaia15.20Kepler14.57TESS15.95Sloan g15.15Sloan r14.83Sloan i14.68Sloan z13.68J13.15H13.08K13.03W113.11W212.52W38.76W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.773 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.620 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-5.87 mas/yr

PM Declination

-10.03 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.230 · y = -0.739 · z = 0.633

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.30277° · Dec 39.28964°

Galactic ℓ, b

70.377° · 13.614°

Ecliptic λ, β

298.377° · 61.035°

HTM-20 index

-550963945

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