Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1435 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1435, located approximately 2,296.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.86 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.57 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.77 g
  • An orbital period of 4.453 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0546 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,331 K (1058 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,296.83 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.226
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 40,504,532 years

Kepler-1435 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.86 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.077 R♃
Mass
0.57 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.002 M♃
Density
4.89 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.77 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.226
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

#444of 570

top 77.7%

This planet

0.86R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1435 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.8611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.57317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.891.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.772.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00893.890.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159647919

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2126632994828732032

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2126632994828732032

System

Kepler-1435

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.860 R⊕ · percentile 21 / cohort 570
Mass 0.566 M⊕ · percentile 17 / cohort 570
Orbital period 4.45 d · percentile 49 / cohort 567
Distance 704.21 pc · percentile 80 / cohort 566
ESI 0.226 · percentile 18 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.453 days
Semi-major axis
0.0546 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
85.80 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.45 Earth days (1.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0546 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.005 %

Duration

3.796 h

Impact parameter b

0.395

Rp / R★

0.006443

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.0937

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 47 ppm lasting ≈ 3.80 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.006443

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

7.770

Impact parameter (b)

0.395

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.0937

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.07750

Eq. Temperature

1,331K

(1058 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

893.89

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.226

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-1435

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,356 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.63 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.320 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.210 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.280 dex

Stellar density

0.420 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
704.21 parsec
Light-years 2,296.83 ly
V-band magnitude
12.98 mag
Voyager-speed travel 40,504,532 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.513.613.57B12.98V12.87Gaia12.94Kepler12.52TESS13.21Sloan g12.89Sloan r12.82Sloan i12.83Sloan z12.00J11.79H11.73K11.71W111.73W211.63W39.54W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.391 mas

Total Proper Motion

10.338 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.14 mas/yr

PM Declination

-10.28 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.256 · y = -0.660 · z = 0.706

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.17328° · Dec 44.92108°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.870° · 13.348°

Ecliptic λ, β

308.204° · 65.576°

HTM-20 index

1389757837

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