Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 3.01 Earth radii
A mass of 9.32 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.03 g
An orbital period of 13.031 days
Semi-major axis 0.1057 AU
Equilibrium temperature 774 K (501 °C)
Distance from Earth 4,499.09 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.304
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 79,341,513 years

Kepler-1267 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

3.01 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.269 R♃

Mass

9.32 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.029 M♃

Density

1.88 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.03 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.304

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

#509of 1978

top 25.7%

This planet

3.01R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-679 b 3.01 R⊕ Kepler-1036 b 3.01 R⊕ Kepler-414 c 3.01 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1267 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	3.01	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	9.32	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.88	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.03	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	86.47	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 268604100

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2075971312960643712

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2075971312960643712

System

Kepler-1267

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 3.010 R⊕ · percentile 74 / cohort 1978

Mass 9.320 M⊕ · percentile 68 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 13.03 d · percentile 44 / cohort 1946

Distance 1,379.43 pc · percentile 91 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.304 · percentile 29 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

13.031 days

Semi-major axis

0.1057 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

86.61 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.03 Earth days (3.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1057 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.057 %

Duration

4.252 h

Impact parameter b

0.030

Rp / R★

0.023144

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,977.1139

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 573 ppm lasting ≈ 4.25 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.023144

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

23.948

Impact parameter (b)

0.030

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,977.1139

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.07660

Eq. Temperature

774K

(501 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

86.47

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.304

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-1267

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,096 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.24 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.200 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.150 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.330 dex

Stellar density

1.530 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,379.43 parsec

Light-years 4,499.09 ly

V-band magnitude

15.85 mag

Voyager-speed travel 79,341,513 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.698 mas

Total Proper Motion

10.223 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.22 mas/yr

PM Declination

-9.31 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.354 · y = -0.634 · z = 0.688

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 299.16951° · Dec 43.44105°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.262° · 7.589°

Ecliptic λ, β

318.946° · 62.014°

HTM-20 index

1824856767