Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1323 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1323, located approximately 1,518.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.52 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.92 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 0.930 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0191 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 2,291 K (2018 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,517.99 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.113
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 26,769,672 years

Kepler-1323 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.52 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.136 R♃
Mass
2.92 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.57 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.113
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

#707of 1176

top 60.0%

This planet

1.52R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1323 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.92317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.571.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.005,067.600.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 63452310

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2128242611132484736

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2128242611132484736

System

Kepler-1323

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.520 R⊕ · percentile 39 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.920 M⊕ · percentile 36 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 0.93 d · percentile 5 / cohort 1164
Distance 465.42 pc · percentile 45 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.113 · percentile 1 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.930 days
Semi-major axis
0.0191 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.59 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 22.3 hours long on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0191 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.011 %

Duration

1.743 h

Impact parameter b

0.102

Rp / R★

0.009869

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.2508

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 109 ppm lasting ≈ 1.74 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.009869

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

4.136

Impact parameter (b)

0.102

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.2508

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.04110

Eq. Temperature

2,291K

(2018 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

5,067.60

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.113

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-1323

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,169 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.55 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.400 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.180 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.210 dex

Stellar density

0.590 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

2.90 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
465.42 parsec
Light-years 1,517.99 ly
V-band magnitude
12.44 mag
Voyager-speed travel 26,769,672 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.612.712.70B12.44V12.34Gaia12.41Kepler11.96TESS12.71Sloan g12.34Sloan r12.28Sloan i12.23Sloan z11.39J11.15H11.12K11.09W111.13W211.02W39.60W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.120 mas

Total Proper Motion

31.746 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-2.89 mas/yr

PM Declination

-31.61 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.270 · y = -0.639 · z = 0.721

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.87225° · Dec 46.09873°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.488° · 12.783°

Ecliptic λ, β

311.974° · 66.237°

HTM-20 index

-1459305699

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