Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1330 b

A super-earth orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Kepler-1330, located approximately 5,611.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.65 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.36 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 10.108 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0889 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 879 K (606 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 5,611.45 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.333
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 98,957,893 years

Kepler-1330 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.65 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.147 R♃
Mass
3.36 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.11 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.333
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

#485of 1176

top 41.2%

This planet

1.65R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1330 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.36317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.111.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00322.400.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 122595516

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2101087044750770688

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2101087044750770688

System

Kepler-1330

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.650 R⊕ · percentile 58 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.360 M⊕ · percentile 52 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 10.11 d · percentile 65 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,720.48 pc · percentile 97 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.333 · percentile 46 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
10.108 days
Semi-major axis
0.0889 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.57 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 10.11 Earth days (2.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0889 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.029 %

Duration

3.657 h

Impact parameter b

0.255

Rp / R★

0.016439

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,968.1081

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 295 ppm lasting ≈ 3.66 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016439

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

20.270

Impact parameter (b)

0.255

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,968.1081

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.05170

Eq. Temperature

879K

(606 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

322.40

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.333

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1330

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,608 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.940 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.970 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.08

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.480 dex

Stellar density

1.541 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,720.48 parsec
Light-years 5,611.45 ly
V-band magnitude
15.08 mag
Voyager-speed travel 98,957,893 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.116.116.10B15.08V14.95Gaia15.02Kepler14.43TESS15.58Sloan g14.92Sloan r14.78Sloan i14.65Sloan z13.76J13.42H13.30K13.31W113.37W212.73W39.09W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.553 mas

Total Proper Motion

1.804 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.68 mas/yr

PM Declination

-1.67 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.269 · y = -0.718 · z = 0.642

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.57671° · Dec 39.95689°

Galactic ℓ, b

72.086° · 11.609°

Ecliptic λ, β

303.762° · 61.006°

HTM-20 index

1361738803

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