Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1413 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1413, located approximately 3,807.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.82 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.97 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.20 g
  • An orbital period of 13.183 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1066 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 661 K (388 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 3,807.84 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.430
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 67,151,231 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1413 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.82 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.162 R♃
Mass
3.97 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.62 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.20 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.430
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

#235of 1176

top 19.9%

This planet

1.82R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1413 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.97317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.621.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.202.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0042.830.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 270957896

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2128145338713986688

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2128145338713986688

System

Kepler-1413

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.820 R⊕ · percentile 79 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.970 M⊕ · percentile 72 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 13.18 d · percentile 73 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,167.49 pc · percentile 88 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.430 · percentile 65 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
13.183 days
Semi-major axis
0.1066 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.97 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.18 Earth days (3.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1066 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.052 %

Duration

3.636 h

Impact parameter b

0.016

Rp / R★

0.021231

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,974.8250

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 518 ppm lasting ≈ 3.64 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021231

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

28.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.016

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,974.8250

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.09130

Eq. Temperature

661K

(388 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

42.83

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.430

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-1413

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,196 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.68 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.800 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.840 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.570 dex

Stellar density

2.233 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,167.49 parsec
Light-years 3,807.84 ly
V-band magnitude
16.47 mag
Voyager-speed travel 67,151,231 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.216.915.83B16.47V16.28Gaia16.24Kepler15.68TESS16.94Sloan g16.19Sloan r15.94Sloan i15.86Sloan z14.82J14.39H14.22K14.12W114.20W212.33W39.18W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.830 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.259 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.23 mas/yr

PM Declination

-0.49 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.284 · y = -0.627 · z = 0.725

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 294.34161° · Dec 46.49876°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.318° · 12.052°

Ecliptic λ, β

314.679° · 66.203°

HTM-20 index

-1091850620

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