Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1418 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1418, located approximately 1,627.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.66 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.39 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 22.476 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1310 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 419 K (146 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,627.52 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.668
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 28,701,286 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1418 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.66 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.148 R♃
Mass
3.39 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.07 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.668
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

#469of 1176

top 39.8%

This planet

1.66R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1418 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.39317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.071.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.007.290.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 258202336

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2104525114527372032

System

Kepler-1418

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.660 R⊕ · percentile 59 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.390 M⊕ · percentile 54 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 22.48 d · percentile 87 / cohort 1164
Distance 499.00 pc · percentile 47 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.668 · percentile 83 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
22.476 days
Semi-major axis
0.1310 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.80 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 22.48 Earth days (6.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1310 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.055 %

Duration

3.560 h

Impact parameter b

0.176

Rp / R★

0.021289

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,969.8319

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 545 ppm lasting ≈ 3.56 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021289

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

50.180

Impact parameter (b)

0.176

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,969.8319

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.26300

Eq. Temperature

419K

(146 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

7.29

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.668

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-1418

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,770 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.63 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.720 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.770 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.610 dex

Stellar density

3.485 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
499.00 parsec
Light-years 1,627.52 ly
V-band magnitude
15.46 mag
Voyager-speed travel 28,701,286 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.516.616.65B15.46V15.28Gaia15.04Kepler14.61TESS15.94Sloan g14.98Sloan r14.65Sloan i14.46Sloan z13.41J12.85H12.76K12.67W112.71W213.03W39.47W4

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