Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1389 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1389, located approximately 1,621.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.77 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.78 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.21 g
  • An orbital period of 99.253 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.3825 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 300 K (27 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,621.30 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.845
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 28,591,600 years

Kepler-1389 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.77 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.158 R♃
Mass
3.78 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.012 M♃
Density
3.75 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.845
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

#293of 1176

top 24.8%

This planet

1.77R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1389 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.78317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.751.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.212.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001.870.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 279913347

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2106303505865370752

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2106303505865370752

System

Kepler-1389

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.770 R⊕ · percentile 73 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.780 M⊕ · percentile 67 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 99.25 d · percentile 99 / cohort 1164
Distance 497.09 pc · percentile 47 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.845 · percentile 93 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
99.253 days
Semi-major axis
0.3825 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.71 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 99.25 Earth days (27.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.3825 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.054 %

Duration

6.006 h

Impact parameter b

0.947

Rp / R★

0.021527

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,981.5353

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 538 ppm lasting ≈ 6.01 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021527

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

42.100

Impact parameter (b)

0.947

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,981.5353

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.76900

Eq. Temperature

300K

(27 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1.87

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.845

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — liquid water is physically possible with adequate atmospheric pressure.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Transit timing variations

Gravitational interactions from neighbours have been detected.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1389

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,078 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.09 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.740 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.810 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.14

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.610 dex

Stellar density

2.070 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
497.09 parsec
Light-years 1,621.30 ly
V-band magnitude
14.90 mag
Voyager-speed travel 28,591,600 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.915.95B14.90V14.68Gaia14.70Kepler14.10TESS15.40Sloan g14.63Sloan r14.40Sloan i14.30Sloan z13.25J12.83H12.70K12.68W112.74W212.59W39.42W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.983 mas

Total Proper Motion

13.566 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.49 mas/yr

PM Declination

-13.48 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.192 · y = -0.684 · z = 0.704

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.71744° · Dec 44.75835°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.120° · 16.831°

Ecliptic λ, β

298.994° · 66.622°

HTM-20 index

75876048

Similar Worlds

Explore Related Categories