Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1145 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1145, located approximately 2,256.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.40 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.54 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.30 g
  • An orbital period of 3.971 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0443 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 958 K (685 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,256.87 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.319
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 39,799,941 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1145 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.40 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.125 R♃
Mass
2.54 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
5.09 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.30 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.319
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

#923of 1176

top 78.4%

This planet

1.40R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1145 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.54317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.091.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.302.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00198.430.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271539239

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2078012796808952832

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2078012796808952832

System

Kepler-1145

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.400 R⊕ · percentile 21 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.540 M⊕ · percentile 20 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 3.97 d · percentile 31 / cohort 1164
Distance 691.96 pc · percentile 60 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.319 · percentile 42 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.971 days
Semi-major axis
0.0443 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
86.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.97 Earth days (1.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0443 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.035 %

Duration

1.814 h

Impact parameter b

0.281

Rp / R★

0.017080

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,967.6389

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 349 ppm lasting ≈ 1.81 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017080

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

16.360

Impact parameter (b)

0.281

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,967.6389

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.06400

Eq. Temperature

958K

(685 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

198.43

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.319

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-1145

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,064 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.79 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.750 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.790 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.13

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.590 dex

Stellar density

5.252 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
691.96 parsec
Light-years 2,256.87 ly
V-band magnitude
15.47 mag
Voyager-speed travel 39,799,941 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.216.416.42B15.47V15.45Gaia15.44Kepler14.83TESS16.17Sloan g15.40Sloan r15.13Sloan i14.95Sloan z13.98J13.49H13.31K13.19W113.33W213.12W39.23W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.417 mas

Total Proper Motion

7.179 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.39 mas/yr

PM Declination

5.68 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.312 · y = -0.661 · z = 0.683

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.30815° · Dec 43.04440°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.520° · 9.848°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.028° · 62.753°

HTM-20 index

-1379786308

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