Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.93 Earth radii
A mass of 4.38 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.18 g
An orbital period of 26.784 days
Semi-major axis 0.1655 AU
Equilibrium temperature 523 K (250 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,064.13 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.524
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 36,400,881 years

Kepler-1232 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.93 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.172 R♃

Mass

4.38 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.014 M♃

Density

3.35 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.18 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.524

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

#85of 1176

top 7.1%

This planet

1.93R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-231 c 1.93 R⊕ Kepler-298 c 1.93 R⊕ TOI-912 b 1.93 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1232 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.93	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	4.38	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	3.35	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.18	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	14.60	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 351190880

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2086814864122389760

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2086814864122389760

System

Kepler-1232

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.930 R⊕ · percentile 92 / cohort 1176

Mass 4.380 M⊕ · percentile 84 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 26.78 d · percentile 90 / cohort 1164

Distance 632.87 pc · percentile 57 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.524 · percentile 75 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

26.784 days

Semi-major axis

0.1655 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.95 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 26.78 Earth days (7.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1655 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.037 %

Duration

4.517 h

Impact parameter b

0.036

Rp / R★

0.019666

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,973.7539

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 365 ppm lasting ≈ 4.52 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019666

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

45.370

Impact parameter (b)

0.036

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,973.7539

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.26100

Eq. Temperature

523K

(250 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

14.60

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.524

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

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-1232

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,471 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.79 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.890 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.920 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.510 dex

Stellar density

1.770 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

632.87 parsec

Light-years 2,064.13 ly

V-band magnitude

14.97 mag

Voyager-speed travel 36,400,881 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.551 mas

Total Proper Motion

10.443 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

10.22 mas/yr

PM Declination

-2.16 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.293 · y = -0.586 · z = 0.756

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.55010° · Dec 49.10231°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.378° · 11.933°

Ecliptic λ, β

321.033° · 67.891°

HTM-20 index

1783585911