Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1315 c

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1315, located approximately 1,568.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.84 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.06 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.19 g
  • An orbital period of 6.566 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0635 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 777 K (504 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,568.38 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.364
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 27,658,434 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around Kepler-1315

Kepler-1315 c shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-1315 b Super-Earth 1.38 2.48 0.843 1,541 2016
Kepler-1315 c this Super-Earth 1.84 4.06 6.566 777 2021

Kepler-1315 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.84 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.165 R♃
Mass
4.06 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.56 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.19 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.364
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#199of 1176

top 16.8%

This planet

1.84R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1315 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.06317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.561.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.192.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0057.600.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271881331

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2080388566557873280

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2080388566557873280

System

Kepler-1315

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.844 R⊕ · percentile 83 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.060 M⊕ · percentile 76 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 6.57 d · percentile 50 / cohort 1164
Distance 480.87 pc · percentile 45 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.364 · percentile 54 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
6.566 days
Semi-major axis
0.0635 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.08 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 6.57 Earth days (1.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0635 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.040 %

Duration

1.732 h

Impact parameter b

0.331

Rp / R★

0.018384

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,967.4948

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 402 ppm lasting ≈ 1.73 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.018384

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

20.490

Impact parameter (b)

0.331

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,967.4948

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.13200

Eq. Temperature

777K

(504 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

57.60

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.364

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Valizadegan et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1315

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,818 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.62 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.856 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.809 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.56

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.481 dex

Stellar density

3.774 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
480.87 parsec
Light-years 1,568.38 ly
V-band magnitude
15.13 mag
Voyager-speed travel 27,658,434 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.116.316.25B15.13V14.95Gaia14.98Kepler14.27TESS15.90Sloan g14.90Sloan r14.58Sloan i14.38Sloan z13.33J12.81H12.68K12.50W112.55W212.10W39.13W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.051 mas

Total Proper Motion

17.628 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

17.59 mas/yr

PM Declination

-1.17 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.302 · y = -0.625 · z = 0.720

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.82157° · Dec 46.05306°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.395° · 10.939°

Ecliptic λ, β

316.506° · 65.376°

HTM-20 index

-1990228182

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