Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1383 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1383, located approximately 3,350.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.41 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.57 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 13.909 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1140 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 928 K (655 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 3,350.31 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.330
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 59,082,661 years

Kepler-1383 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.41 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.126 R♃
Mass
2.57 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
5.04 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.330
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

#902of 1176

top 76.6%

This planet

1.41R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1383 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.57317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.041.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00231.400.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 273507060

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2078431642023279488

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2078431642023279488

System

Kepler-1383

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.410 R⊕ · percentile 22 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.570 M⊕ · percentile 21 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 13.91 d · percentile 75 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,027.21 pc · percentile 82 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.330 · percentile 45 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
13.909 days
Semi-major axis
0.1140 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.52 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.91 Earth days (3.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1140 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.009 %

Duration

6.632 h

Impact parameter b

0.132

Rp / R★

0.008863

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,975.8819

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 87 ppm lasting ≈ 6.63 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.008863

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

15.715

Impact parameter (b)

0.132

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,975.8819

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.11100

Eq. Temperature

928K

(655 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

231.40

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.330

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-1383

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,370 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.24 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.440 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.260 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.230 dex

Stellar density

0.280 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,027.21 parsec
Light-years 3,350.31 ly
V-band magnitude
13.83 mag
Voyager-speed travel 59,082,661 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.014.314.27B13.83V13.71Gaia13.72Kepler13.28TESS14.12Sloan g13.69Sloan r13.55Sloan i13.50Sloan z12.65J12.36H12.32K12.27W112.32W212.54W38.97W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.945 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.259 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-2.33 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.81 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.347 · y = -0.655 · z = 0.672

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.94477° · Dec 42.19184°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.717° · 7.737°

Ecliptic λ, β

316.162° · 61.228°

HTM-20 index

-928344982

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