Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1356 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1356, located approximately 2,756.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.53 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.96 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 0.634 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0136 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,714 K (1441 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,756.76 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.160
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 48,615,492 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1356 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.53 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.137 R♃
Mass
2.96 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.54 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.160
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

#687of 1176

top 58.3%

This planet

1.53R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1356 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.96317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.541.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001,966.060.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159576968

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2126012900332317056

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2126012900332317056

System

Kepler-1356

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.530 R⊕ · percentile 40 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.960 M⊕ · percentile 37 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 0.63 d · percentile 2 / cohort 1164
Distance 845.23 pc · percentile 71 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.160 · percentile 6 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.634 days
Semi-major axis
0.0136 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
85.82 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 15.2 hours long on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0136 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.032 %

Duration

0.924 h

Impact parameter b

0.217

Rp / R★

0.017715

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.8948

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 317 ppm lasting ≈ 0.92 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017715

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

5.250

Impact parameter (b)

0.217

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.8948

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.01610

Eq. Temperature

1,714K

(1441 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,966.06

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.160

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-1356

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,106 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.780 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.820 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.580 dex

Stellar density

6.807 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
845.23 parsec
Light-years 2,756.76 ly
V-band magnitude
15.89 mag
Voyager-speed travel 48,615,492 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.917.417.39B15.89V15.72Gaia15.76Kepler15.13TESS16.45Sloan g15.70Sloan r15.46Sloan i15.33Sloan z14.27J13.80H13.73K13.58W113.87W212.77W38.91W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.155 mas

Total Proper Motion

15.205 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

6.29 mas/yr

PM Declination

-13.84 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.261 · y = -0.680 · z = 0.685

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.99538° · Dec 43.24388°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.257° · 12.747°

Ecliptic λ, β

306.595° · 64.039°

HTM-20 index

865029145

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