Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1293 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1293, located approximately 3,353.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.97 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.87 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.93 g
  • An orbital period of 5.577 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0676 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,183 K (910 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 3,353.41 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.267
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 59,137,303 years

Kepler-1293 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.97 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.087 R♃
Mass
0.87 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.003 M♃
Density
5.24 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.93 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.267
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

#362of 570

top 63.3%

This planet

0.97R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1293 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.9711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.87317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.241.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.932.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00929.120.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 267749620

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2129467364005869184

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2129467364005869184

System

Kepler-1293

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.970 R⊕ · percentile 36 / cohort 570
Mass 0.871 M⊕ · percentile 32 / cohort 570
Orbital period 5.58 d · percentile 58 / cohort 567
Distance 1,028.16 pc · percentile 94 / cohort 566
ESI 0.267 · percentile 29 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.577 days
Semi-major axis
0.0676 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
87.54 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.58 Earth days (1.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0676 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.006 %

Duration

3.745 h

Impact parameter b

0.570

Rp / R★

0.007118

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,969.4277

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 58 ppm lasting ≈ 3.75 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.007118

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.470

Impact parameter (b)

0.570

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,969.4277

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.06580

Eq. Temperature

1,183K

(910 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

929.12

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.267

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-1293

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,241 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.82 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.280 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.180 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.290 dex

Stellar density

0.270 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,028.16 parsec
Light-years 3,353.41 ly
V-band magnitude
13.38 mag
Voyager-speed travel 59,137,303 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.614.114.08B13.38V13.30Gaia13.38Kepler12.92TESS13.67Sloan g13.32Sloan r13.26Sloan i13.23Sloan z12.41J12.13H12.08K12.05W112.09W212.65W39.64W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.944 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.439 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.21 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.58 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.228 · y = -0.625 · z = 0.747

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.02588° · Dec 48.33592°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.745° · 15.476°

Ecliptic λ, β

309.525° · 69.043°

HTM-20 index

373079655

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