Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1349 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1349, located approximately 901.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.70 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.27 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.55 g
  • An orbital period of 2.128 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0342 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,668 K (1395 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 901.24 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.163
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 15,893,438 years

Kepler-1349 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.70 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.062 R♃
Mass
0.27 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.001 M♃
Density
4.34 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.55 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.163
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

#526of 570

top 92.1%

This planet

0.70R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1349 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.7011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.27317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.341.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.552.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001,862.330.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 405719110

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2131184938606509952

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2131184938606509952

System

Kepler-1349

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.700 R⊕ · percentile 7 / cohort 570
Mass 0.271 M⊕ · percentile 6 / cohort 570
Orbital period 2.13 d · percentile 23 / cohort 567
Distance 276.32 pc · percentile 38 / cohort 566
ESI 0.163 · percentile 7 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.128 days
Semi-major axis
0.0342 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.92 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.13 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0342 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.003 %

Duration

3.305 h

Impact parameter b

0.098

Rp / R★

0.004642

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.4706

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 26 ppm lasting ≈ 3.31 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.004642

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

4.975

Impact parameter (b)

0.098

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.4706

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.12400

Eq. Temperature

1,668K

(1395 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,862.33

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.163

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-1349

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,086 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.88 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.280 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.160 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.290 dex

Stellar density

0.460 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-29.14 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
276.32 parsec
Light-years 901.24 ly
V-band magnitude
11.21 mag
Voyager-speed travel 15,893,438 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.412.012.00B11.21V11.08Gaia11.13Kepler10.66TESS11.51Sloan g11.07Sloan r10.96Sloan i10.94Sloan z10.07J9.82H9.76K9.73W19.77W29.72W39.45W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.590 mas

Total Proper Motion

45.016 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

22.30 mas/yr

PM Declination

39.10 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.186 · y = -0.633 · z = 0.752

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.33856° · Dec 48.74427°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.171° · 17.890°

Ecliptic λ, β

303.377° · 70.296°

HTM-20 index

-213001069

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