Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1400 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1400, located approximately 2,453.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.62 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.26 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.24 g
  • An orbital period of 9.067 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0771 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 725 K (452 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,453.47 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.408
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 43,266,872 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1400 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.62 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.145 R♃
Mass
3.26 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.21 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.24 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.408
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

#532of 1176

top 45.2%

This planet

1.62R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1400 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.26317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.211.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.242.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0044.520.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158212755

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2106444552591200768

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2106444552591200768

System

Kepler-1400

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.620 R⊕ · percentile 54 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.260 M⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 9.07 d · percentile 62 / cohort 1164
Distance 752.24 pc · percentile 64 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.408 · percentile 62 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
9.067 days
Semi-major axis
0.0771 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
83.96 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 9.07 Earth days (2.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0771 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.037 %

Duration

2.957 h

Impact parameter b

0.331

Rp / R★

0.018897

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,967.7521

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 367 ppm lasting ≈ 2.96 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.018897

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

8.820

Impact parameter (b)

0.331

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,967.7521

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10200

Eq. Temperature

725K

(452 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

44.52

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.408

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-1400

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,044 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.57 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.780 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.830 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.580 dex

Stellar density

2.649 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
752.24 parsec
Light-years 2,453.47 ly
V-band magnitude
16.07 mag
Voyager-speed travel 43,266,872 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.316.515.58B16.07V15.71Gaia15.74Kepler15.11TESS16.48Sloan g15.69Sloan r15.42Sloan i15.26Sloan z14.26J13.78H13.77K13.54W113.58W212.52W39.27W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.301 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.367 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

3.11 mas/yr

PM Declination

3.06 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.197 · y = -0.674 · z = 0.713

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.27168° · Dec 45.44081°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.934° · 16.722°

Ecliptic λ, β

300.438° · 67.168°

HTM-20 index

-1244269544

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