Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1152 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1152, located approximately 702.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.87 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.59 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.78 g
  • An orbital period of 1.647 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0223 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 806 K (533 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 702.00 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.391
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 12,379,687 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1152 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.87 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.078 R♃
Mass
0.59 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.002 M♃
Density
4.92 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.78 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.391
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

#435of 570

top 76.1%

This planet

0.87R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1152 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.8711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.59317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.921.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.782.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00139.600.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159382189

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2126870351901388672

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2126870351901388672

System

Kepler-1152

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.870 R⊕ · percentile 23 / cohort 570
Mass 0.590 M⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 570
Orbital period 1.65 d · percentile 19 / cohort 567
Distance 215.23 pc · percentile 33 / cohort 566
ESI 0.391 · percentile 58 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.647 days
Semi-major axis
0.0223 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.30 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.65 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0223 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.031 %

Duration

1.256 h

Impact parameter b

0.345

Rp / R★

0.015446

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.0606

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 305 ppm lasting ≈ 1.26 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.015446

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.610

Impact parameter (b)

0.345

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.0606

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10400

Eq. Temperature

806K

(533 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

139.60

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.391

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-1152

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,964 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.47 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.530 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.550 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.25

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.730 dex

Stellar density

3.728 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
215.23 parsec
Light-years 702.00 ly
V-band magnitude
15.31 mag
Voyager-speed travel 12,379,687 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.016.916.86B15.31V14.60Gaia14.63Kepler13.66TESS16.03Sloan g14.67Sloan r14.04Sloan i13.70Sloan z12.50J11.82H11.68K11.58W111.59W211.57W39.03W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.617 mas

Total Proper Motion

32.427 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

16.75 mas/yr

PM Declination

27.76 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.251 · y = -0.673 · z = 0.696

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.43415° · Dec 44.10778°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.883° · 13.482°

Ecliptic λ, β

306.360° · 64.988°

HTM-20 index

663928149

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