Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1317 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1317, located approximately 2,375.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.56 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.05 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.25 g
  • An orbital period of 0.569 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0128 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,796 K (1523 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,375.40 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.151
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 41,890,246 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1317 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.56 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.139 R♃
Mass
3.05 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.41 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.25 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.151
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

#636of 1176

top 54.0%

This planet

1.56R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1317 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.05317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.411.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.252.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.002,413.260.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 63005467

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2101746579928077440

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2101746579928077440

System

Kepler-1317

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.560 R⊕ · percentile 45 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.050 M⊕ · percentile 41 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 0.57 d · percentile 1 / cohort 1164
Distance 728.30 pc · percentile 63 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.151 · percentile 5 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.569 days
Semi-major axis
0.0128 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.23 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 13.7 hours long on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0128 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.038 %

Duration

1.215 h

Impact parameter b

0.012

Rp / R★

0.017510

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.0488

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 378 ppm lasting ≈ 1.22 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017510

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

3.686

Impact parameter (b)

0.012

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.0488

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.01760

Eq. Temperature

1,796K

(1523 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

2,413.26

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.151

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1317

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,144 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.79 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.790 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.830 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.570 dex

Stellar density

2.928 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
728.30 parsec
Light-years 2,375.40 ly
V-band magnitude
15.08 mag
Voyager-speed travel 41,890,246 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.915.91B15.08V15.23Gaia15.23Kepler14.64TESS15.92Sloan g15.14Sloan r14.93Sloan i14.80Sloan z13.82J13.32H13.31K13.23W113.30W212.30W39.39W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.345 mas

Total Proper Motion

0.504 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.32 mas/yr

PM Declination

-0.39 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.273 · y = -0.690 · z = 0.671

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.61188° · Dec 42.11598°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.418° · 11.849°

Ecliptic λ, β

306.739° · 62.825°

HTM-20 index

-377899784

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