Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 3.40 Earth radii
A mass of 11.50 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.99 g
An orbital period of 40.529 days
Semi-major axis 0.2866 AU
Equilibrium temperature 933 K (660 °C)
Distance from Earth 4,945.41 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.238
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 87,212,223 years

Kepler-1360 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

3.40 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.303 R♃

Mass

11.50 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.036 M♃

Density

1.61 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.99 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.238

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

#221of 1978

top 11.1%

This planet

3.40R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-1051 b 3.40 R⊕ K2-105 b 3.40 R⊕ GJ 3222 b 3.40 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1360 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	3.40	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	11.50	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.61	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.99	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	82.56	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 239287622

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2085210887120749824

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2085210887120749824

System

Kepler-1360

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 3.400 R⊕ · percentile 89 / cohort 1978

Mass 11.500 M⊕ · percentile 83 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 40.53 d · percentile 81 / cohort 1946

Distance 1,516.27 pc · percentile 94 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.238 · percentile 14 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

40.529 days

Semi-major axis

0.2866 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.34 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 40.53 Earth days (11.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.2866 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.036 %

Duration

10.526 h

Impact parameter b

0.940

Rp / R★

0.017422

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,001.0288

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 361 ppm lasting ≈ 10.53 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017422

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

29.730

Impact parameter (b)

0.940

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,001.0288

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.18900

Eq. Temperature

933K

(660 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

82.56

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.238

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

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1512 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1410 b · Super-Earth Kepler-560 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1389 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1450 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1544 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1459 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1638 b · Super-Earth Kepler-737 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1185 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1178 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1040 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: Kepler-1360

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

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

Estimated Age

1.55 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.830 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.510 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.090 dex

Stellar density

0.257 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,516.27 parsec

Light-years 4,945.41 ly

V-band magnitude

14.01 mag

Voyager-speed travel 87,212,223 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.631 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.421 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-5.27 mas/yr

PM Declination

-7.81 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.353 · y = -0.604 · z = 0.715

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 300.34405° · Dec 45.62318°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.587° · 7.985°

Ecliptic λ, β

322.666° · 63.619°

HTM-20 index

-1253459869