Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1329 b

A sub-neptune orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1329, located approximately 1,917.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 2.17 Earth radii
  • A mass of 5.35 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.14 g
  • An orbital period of 9.336 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0747 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 577 K (304 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,917.92 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.460
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 33,822,481 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1329 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
2.17 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.194 R♃
Mass
5.35 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.017 M♃
Density
2.88 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.14 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.460
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

#1720of 1978

top 86.9%

This planet

2.17R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1329 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.002.1711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.005.35317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.881.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.142.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0026.650.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 47977416

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2119746375543622016

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2119746375543622016

System

Kepler-1329

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.170 R⊕ · percentile 13 / cohort 1978
Mass 5.350 M⊕ · percentile 13 / cohort 1978
Orbital period 9.34 d · percentile 31 / cohort 1946
Distance 588.04 pc · percentile 52 / cohort 1975
ESI 0.460 · percentile 64 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
9.336 days
Semi-major axis
0.0747 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
86.38 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 9.34 Earth days (2.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0747 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.089 %

Duration

2.264 h

Impact parameter b

0.500

Rp / R★

0.028967

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,973.6808

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 885 ppm lasting ≈ 2.26 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.028967

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

14.260

Impact parameter (b)

0.500

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,973.6808

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.12700

Eq. Temperature

577K

(304 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

26.65

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.460

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

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1329

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,500 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.62 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.690 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.720 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.620 dex

Stellar density

4.941 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-14.26 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

8.70 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
588.04 parsec
Light-years 1,917.92 ly
V-band magnitude
15.96 mag
Voyager-speed travel 33,822,481 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.317.617.65B15.96V15.85Gaia15.91Kepler15.13TESS16.98Sloan g15.82Sloan r15.45Sloan i15.29Sloan z14.17J13.50H13.44K13.36W113.41W212.66W39.33W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.672 mas

Total Proper Motion

20.557 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-14.23 mas/yr

PM Declination

-14.84 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.134 · y = -0.652 · z = 0.746

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 281.64764° · Dec 48.27095°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.599° · 20.660°

Ecliptic λ, β

294.037° · 70.740°

HTM-20 index

2051420239

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