Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1148 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1148, located approximately 2,040.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.69 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.50 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 1.104 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0188 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,397 K (1124 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,040.73 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.198
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 35,988,307 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1148 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.69 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.151 R♃
Mass
3.50 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
3.98 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.198
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

#415of 1176

top 35.2%

This planet

1.69R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1148 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.50317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.981.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00815.410.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159581434

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2127431274629643008

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2127431274629643008

System

Kepler-1148

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.690 R⊕ · percentile 64 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.500 M⊕ · percentile 58 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.10 d · percentile 7 / cohort 1164
Distance 625.69 pc · percentile 57 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.198 · percentile 12 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.104 days
Semi-major axis
0.0188 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.94 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.10 Earth days (0.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0188 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.049 %

Duration

1.055 h

Impact parameter b

0.096

Rp / R★

0.019976

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.3208

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 494 ppm lasting ≈ 1.05 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019976

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

8.146

Impact parameter (b)

0.096

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.3208

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.03000

Eq. Temperature

1,397K

(1124 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

815.41

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.198

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

Host System: Kepler-1148

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,054 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.57 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.770 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.810 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.580 dex

Stellar density

8.382 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
625.69 parsec
Light-years 2,040.73 ly
V-band magnitude
15.53 mag
Voyager-speed travel 35,988,307 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.016.516.49B15.53V15.28Gaia15.28Kepler14.66TESS16.05Sloan g15.22Sloan r14.95Sloan i14.79Sloan z13.80J13.30H13.20K13.21W113.28W212.90W39.03W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.570 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.586 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

5.89 mas/yr

PM Declination

2.94 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.250 · y = -0.652 · z = 0.716

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.95361° · Dec 45.71955°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.547° · 13.825°

Ecliptic λ, β

308.538° · 66.377°

HTM-20 index

1452647489

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