Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1384 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1384, located approximately 2,015.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.94 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.42 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.17 g
  • An orbital period of 15.363 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1126 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 608 K (335 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,015.64 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.455
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 35,545,881 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1384 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.94 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.173 R♃
Mass
4.42 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.014 M♃
Density
3.33 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.17 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.455
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

#79of 1176

top 6.6%

This planet

1.94R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1384 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.42317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.331.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.172.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0032.230.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 184418214

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2073299327909532928

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2073299327911286144

System

Kepler-1384

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.940 R⊕ · percentile 93 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.420 M⊕ · percentile 86 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 15.36 d · percentile 79 / cohort 1164
Distance 618.00 pc · percentile 56 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.455 · percentile 68 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
15.363 days
Semi-major axis
0.1126 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.54 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 15.36 Earth days (4.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1126 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.047 %

Duration

3.657 h

Impact parameter b

0.250

Rp / R★

0.023794

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,978.5723

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 468 ppm lasting ≈ 3.66 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.023794

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

31.050

Impact parameter (b)

0.250

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,978.5723

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.18200

Eq. Temperature

608K

(335 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

32.23

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.455

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-1384

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,919 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.57 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.740 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.780 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.600 dex

Stellar density

2.400 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
618.00 parsec
Light-years 2,015.64 ly
V-band magnitude
15.76 mag
Voyager-speed travel 35,545,881 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.416.214.84B15.76V15.45Gaia15.38Kepler14.80TESS16.22Sloan g15.29Sloan r15.03Sloan i14.80Sloan z13.79J13.28H13.07K12.86W112.96W212.83W39.44W4

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

21.557 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-21.30 mas/yr

PM Declination

-3.31 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.341 · y = -0.692 · z = 0.636

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.21513° · Dec 39.52702°

Galactic ℓ, b

73.727° · 7.564°

Ecliptic λ, β

311.748° · 59.225°

HTM-20 index

-1078922097

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