Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1382 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1382, located approximately 2,407.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.88 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.19 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.19 g
  • An orbital period of 16.358 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1402 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 959 K (686 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,407.88 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.290
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 42,463,006 years

Kepler-1382 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.88 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.168 R♃
Mass
4.19 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.47 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.19 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.290
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

#153of 1176

top 12.9%

This planet

1.88R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1382 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.19317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.471.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.192.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00198.470.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 184014439

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2076173859319258368

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2076173859319258368

System

Kepler-1382

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.880 R⊕ · percentile 86 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.190 M⊕ · percentile 79 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 16.36 d · percentile 80 / cohort 1164
Distance 738.26 pc · percentile 63 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.290 · percentile 34 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
16.358 days
Semi-major axis
0.1402 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
81.83 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 16.36 Earth days (4.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1402 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.011 %

Duration

9.573 h

Impact parameter b

0.255

Rp / R★

0.009851

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,974.2569

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 115 ppm lasting ≈ 9.57 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.009851

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

12.770

Impact parameter (b)

0.255

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,974.2569

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.19000

Eq. Temperature

959K

(686 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

198.47

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.290

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-1382

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,161 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.75 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.720 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.360 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.30

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.100 dex

Stellar density

0.280 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
738.26 parsec
Light-years 2,407.88 ly
V-band magnitude
12.86 mag
Voyager-speed travel 42,463,006 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.213.513.46B12.86V12.76Gaia12.68Kepler12.33TESS13.11Sloan g12.63Sloan r12.50Sloan i12.48Sloan z11.68J11.42H11.36K11.24W111.31W211.23W39.15W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.329 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.367 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

5.60 mas/yr

PM Declination

3.04 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.333 · y = -0.702 · z = 0.630

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.37742° · Dec 39.04804°

Galactic ℓ, b

72.987° · 7.900°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.245° · 58.992°

HTM-20 index

-1930448863

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