Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1320 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1320, located approximately 2,111.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.70 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.53 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.22 g
  • An orbital period of 0.868 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0163 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,389 K (1116 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,111.61 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.199
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 37,238,279 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1320 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.70 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.152 R♃
Mass
3.53 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
3.95 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.22 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.199
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

#401of 1176

top 34.0%

This planet

1.70R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1320 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.53317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.951.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.222.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00672.110.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 121603556

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2101307290671768704

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2101307290671768704

System

Kepler-1320

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.700 R⊕ · percentile 65 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.530 M⊕ · percentile 59 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 0.87 d · percentile 4 / cohort 1164
Distance 647.42 pc · percentile 58 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.199 · percentile 12 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.868 days
Semi-major axis
0.0163 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.78 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 20.8 hours long on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0163 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.054 %

Duration

1.058 h

Impact parameter b

0.465

Rp / R★

0.021471

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.0673

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 538 ppm lasting ≈ 1.06 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021471

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

6.319

Impact parameter (b)

0.465

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.0673

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.02520

Eq. Temperature

1,389K

(1116 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

672.11

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.199

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-1320

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,817 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.16 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.740 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.800 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.10

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.600 dex

Stellar density

4.768 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
647.42 parsec
Light-years 2,111.61 ly
V-band magnitude
15.94 mag
Voyager-speed travel 37,238,279 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.217.417.39B15.94V15.90Gaia15.90Kepler15.21TESS16.80Sloan g15.82Sloan r15.51Sloan i15.37Sloan z14.23J13.71H13.66K13.50W113.52W212.66W39.17W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.517 mas

Total Proper Motion

7.641 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

2.82 mas/yr

PM Declination

-7.10 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.241 · y = -0.723 · z = 0.648

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 288.43360° · Dec 40.38085°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.767° · 13.271°

Ecliptic λ, β

300.717° · 61.868°

HTM-20 index

-1340273172

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