Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1207 b

A super-earth orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Kepler-1207, located approximately 5,721.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.62 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.26 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.24 g
  • An orbital period of 13.682 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1156 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 802 K (529 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 5,721.40 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.368
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 100,896,812 years

Kepler-1207 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.62 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.145 R♃
Mass
3.26 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.21 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.24 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.368
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

#532of 1176

top 45.2%

This planet

1.62R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1207 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.26317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.211.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.242.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00352.510.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 27390527

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2134833427427670016

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2134833427427670016

System

Kepler-1207

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.620 R⊕ · percentile 54 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.260 M⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 13.68 d · percentile 74 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,754.19 pc · percentile 97 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.368 · percentile 55 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
13.682 days
Semi-major axis
0.1156 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.35 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.68 Earth days (3.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1156 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.018 %

Duration

4.163 h

Impact parameter b

0.860

Rp / R★

0.013685

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,972.1874

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 180 ppm lasting ≈ 4.16 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.013685

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

14.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.860

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,972.1874

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.06590

Eq. Temperature

802K

(529 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

352.51

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.368

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1207

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,909 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.63 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.060 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.060 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.410 dex

Stellar density

0.889 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,754.19 parsec
Light-years 5,721.40 ly
V-band magnitude
14.60 mag
Voyager-speed travel 100,896,812 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.315.31B14.60V14.45Gaia14.50Kepler13.99TESS14.94Sloan g14.44Sloan r14.31Sloan i14.26Sloan z13.37J13.07H13.02K12.99W113.01W213.05W39.43W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.541 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.203 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.80 mas/yr

PM Declination

-4.88 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.276 · y = -0.590 · z = 0.759

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.06420° · Dec 49.35896°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.155° · 12.912°

Ecliptic λ, β

319.042° · 68.571°

HTM-20 index

-509784128

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