Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1289 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1289, located approximately 3,436.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.52 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.92 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 7.990 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0785 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,113 K (840 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 3,436.28 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.264
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 60,598,826 years

Kepler-1289 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.52 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.136 R♃
Mass
2.92 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.57 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.264
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

#707of 1176

top 60.0%

This planet

1.52R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1289 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.92317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.571.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00223.440.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 184428068

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2076819276942298496

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2076819276942298496

System

Kepler-1289

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.520 R⊕ · percentile 39 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.920 M⊕ · percentile 36 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 7.99 d · percentile 57 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,053.57 pc · percentile 84 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.264 · percentile 28 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
7.990 days
Semi-major axis
0.0785 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.67 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 7.99 Earth days (2.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0785 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.017 %

Duration

3.274 h

Impact parameter b

0.176

Rp / R★

0.012205

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.2718

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 166 ppm lasting ≈ 3.27 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.012205

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

6.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.176

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.2718

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.07450

Eq. Temperature

1,113K

(840 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

223.44

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.264

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1289

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,080 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.95 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.170 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.100 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.350 dex

Stellar density

1.905 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,053.57 parsec
Light-years 3,436.28 ly
V-band magnitude
14.73 mag
Voyager-speed travel 60,598,826 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.615.60B14.73V14.60Gaia14.59Kepler14.12TESS15.06Sloan g14.54Sloan r14.39Sloan i14.30Sloan z13.44J13.11H13.04K12.96W113.06W212.66W39.43W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.921 mas

Total Proper Motion

12.625 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-6.99 mas/yr

PM Declination

-10.52 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.335 · y = -0.676 · z = 0.657

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.38877° · Dec 41.04051°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.127° · 8.184°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.057° · 60.595°

HTM-20 index

-1390268870

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