Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1366 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1366, located approximately 1,519.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.43 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.63 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 2.165 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0273 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 783 K (510 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,519.32 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.392
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 26,793,197 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1366 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.43 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.128 R♃
Mass
2.63 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
4.94 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.392
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

#864of 1176

top 73.4%

This planet

1.43R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1366 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.63317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.941.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00134.980.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 120421638

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2104065209429419520

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2104065209430717568

System

Kepler-1366

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.430 R⊕ · percentile 25 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.630 M⊕ · percentile 24 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.16 d · percentile 13 / cohort 1164
Distance 465.83 pc · percentile 45 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.392 · percentile 59 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.165 days
Semi-major axis
0.0273 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.44 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.16 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0273 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.053 %

Duration

1.385 h

Impact parameter b

0.338

Rp / R★

0.021722

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.8323

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 525 ppm lasting ≈ 1.38 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021722

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

12.170

Impact parameter (b)

0.338

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.8323

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.05860

Eq. Temperature

783K

(510 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

134.98

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.392

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-1366

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,070 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.98 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.600 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.620 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.680 dex

Stellar density

2.874 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
465.83 parsec
Light-years 1,519.32 ly
V-band magnitude
16.69 mag
Voyager-speed travel 26,793,197 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

13.018.318.31B16.69V15.89Gaia15.88Kepler14.94TESS17.23Sloan g15.94Sloan r15.30Sloan i14.98Sloan z13.77J13.10H12.96K

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.119 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.190 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-5.73 mas/yr

PM Declination

-7.19 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.194 · y = -0.723 · z = 0.663

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.06488° · Dec 41.55485°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.838° · 16.072°

Ecliptic λ, β

295.977° · 63.642°

HTM-20 index

2122460748

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