Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1319 b

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf Kepler-1319, located approximately 338.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.34 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.36 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.31 g
  • An orbital period of 2.887 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0296 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 557 K (284 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 338.93 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.556
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 5,977,057 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1319 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.34 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.120 R♃
Mass
2.36 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.39 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.31 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.556
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

#1010of 1176

top 85.8%

This planet

1.34R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1319 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.36317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.391.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.312.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0038.450.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 417676990

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2129942765344872320

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2129942765344872320

System

Kepler-1319

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.340 R⊕ · percentile 13 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.360 M⊕ · percentile 13 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.89 d · percentile 20 / cohort 1164
Distance 103.92 pc · percentile 17 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.556 · percentile 78 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.887 days
Semi-major axis
0.0296 AU
Eccentricity
0.330
Inclination
84.91 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.89 Earth days (0.8% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.0296 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.063 %

Duration

0.885 h

Impact parameter b

0.650

Rp / R★

0.023078

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.6658

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 632 ppm lasting ≈ 0.89 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.023078

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

25.300

Impact parameter (b)

0.650

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.6658

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.28500

Eq. Temperature

557K

(284 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

38.45

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.556

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

Mann et al. 2017

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2017-06

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1319

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,655 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.37 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.540 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.560 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.44

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.730 dex

Stellar density

5.613 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
103.92 parsec
Light-years 338.93 ly
V-band magnitude
15.16 mag
Voyager-speed travel 5,977,057 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

9.216.716.70B15.16V14.22Gaia14.72Kepler13.06TESS15.76Sloan g14.69Sloan r14.27Sloan i11.57J10.93H10.73K10.56W110.48W210.42W39.18W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

9.594 mas

Total Proper Motion

135.120 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

53.22 mas/yr

PM Declination

124.20 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.233 · y = -0.608 · z = 0.759

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.95645° · Dec 49.36679°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.979° · 15.332°

Ecliptic λ, β

312.283° · 69.747°

HTM-20 index

848156550

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