Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.23 Earth radii
A mass of 2.04 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.35 g
An orbital period of 2.352 days
Semi-major axis 0.0325 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,019 K (746 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,293.00 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.303
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 40,437,064 years
Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1146 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.23 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.110 R♃

Mass

2.04 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.006 M♃

Density

6.02 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.35 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.303

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

#17of 570

top 2.8%

This planet

1.23R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-252 b 1.23 R⊕ Kepler-271 b 1.23 R⊕ Kepler-197 c 1.23 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1146 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.23	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	2.04	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	6.02	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.35	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	227.96	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158322622

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2130684695175070848

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2130684695176129536

System

Kepler-1146

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 1.230 R⊕ · percentile 94 / cohort 570

Mass 2.040 M⊕ · percentile 86 / cohort 570

Orbital period 2.35 d · percentile 27 / cohort 567

Distance 703.04 pc · percentile 80 / cohort 566

ESI 0.303 · percentile 39 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

2.352 days

Semi-major axis

0.0325 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.48 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.35 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0325 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.032 %

Duration

1.707 h

Impact parameter b

0.095

Rp / R★

0.016310

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.8041

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 319 ppm lasting ≈ 1.71 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016310

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.095

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.8041

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.04620

Eq. Temperature

1,019K

(746 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

227.96

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.303

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. 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

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-1146

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,692 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.700 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.740 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.620 dex

Stellar density

3.922 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

703.04 parsec

Light-years 2,293.00 ly

V-band magnitude

15.95 mag

Voyager-speed travel 40,437,064 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.394 mas

Total Proper Motion

12.529 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

10.61 mas/yr

PM Declination

6.67 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.195 · y = -0.648 · z = 0.736

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.71671° · Dec 47.42566°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.980° · 17.174°

Ecliptic λ, β

302.831° · 68.967°

HTM-20 index

-645548021