Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1395 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1395, located approximately 1,607.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.80 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.44 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.68 g
  • An orbital period of 3.785 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0497 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,311 K (1038 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,607.60 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.225
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 28,350,084 years

Kepler-1395 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.80 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.071 R♃
Mass
0.44 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.001 M♃
Density
4.69 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.68 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.225
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

#479of 570

top 83.9%

This planet

0.80R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1395 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.8011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.44317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.691.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.682.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00730.530.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 63204326

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2128478044059903872

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2128478044059903872

System

Kepler-1395

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.800 R⊕ · percentile 15 / cohort 570
Mass 0.437 M⊕ · percentile 13 / cohort 570
Orbital period 3.78 d · percentile 41 / cohort 567
Distance 492.89 pc · percentile 63 / cohort 566
ESI 0.225 · percentile 18 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.785 days
Semi-major axis
0.0497 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.88 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.78 Earth days (1.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0497 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.004 %

Duration

3.108 h

Impact parameter b

0.021

Rp / R★

0.005537

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.5222

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 36 ppm lasting ≈ 3.11 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.005537

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

9.370

Impact parameter (b)

0.021

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.5222

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10100

Eq. Temperature

1,311K

(1038 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

730.53

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.225

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1395

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,138 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.88 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.230 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.170 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.12

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.330 dex

Stellar density

0.680 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-11.97 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
492.89 parsec
Light-years 1,607.60 ly
V-band magnitude
12.63 mag
Voyager-speed travel 28,350,084 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.513.213.24B12.63V12.54Gaia12.58Kepler12.14TESS12.91Sloan g12.53Sloan r12.44Sloan i12.40Sloan z11.57J11.35H11.29K11.25W111.29W211.35W39.52W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.000 mas

Total Proper Motion

7.042 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.70 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.24 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.256 · y = -0.623 · z = 0.739

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.33749° · Dec 47.66417°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.775° · 13.790°

Ecliptic λ, β

312.685° · 67.820°

HTM-20 index

-114553331

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