Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.86 Earth radii
A mass of 4.12 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.19 g
An orbital period of 25.159 days
Semi-major axis 0.1694 AU
Equilibrium temperature 619 K (346 °C)
Distance from Earth 5,503.78 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.454
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 97,059,237 years

Kepler-1463 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.86 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.166 R♃

Mass

4.12 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.013 M♃

Density

3.52 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.19 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.454

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

#177of 1176

top 15.0%

This planet

1.86R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-299 d 1.86 R⊕ Kepler-191 c 1.86 R⊕ Kepler-265 b 1.86 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1463 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.86	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	4.12	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	3.52	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.19	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	57.63	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271051532

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2077536673917322368

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2077536673917322368

System

Kepler-1463

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.860 R⊕ · percentile 84 / cohort 1176

Mass 4.120 M⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 25.16 d · percentile 89 / cohort 1164

Distance 1,687.47 pc · percentile 96 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.454 · percentile 68 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

25.159 days

Semi-major axis

0.1694 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.95 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 25.16 Earth days (6.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1694 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.036 %

Duration

5.180 h

Impact parameter b

0.205

Rp / R★

0.017886

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,986.0506

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 358 ppm lasting ≈ 5.18 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017886

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

37.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.205

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,986.0506

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10000

Eq. Temperature

619K

(346 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

57.63

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.454

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1512 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1410 b · Super-Earth Kepler-560 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1389 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1450 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1544 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1459 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1638 b · Super-Earth Kepler-737 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1185 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1178 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1040 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: Kepler-1463

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,679 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.79 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.950 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.960 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.470 dex

Stellar density

1.589 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,687.47 parsec

Light-years 5,503.78 ly

V-band magnitude

15.91 mag

Voyager-speed travel 97,059,237 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.565 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.703 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.29 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.70 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.308 · y = -0.676 · z = 0.669

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 294.48728° · Dec 42.00691°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.302° · 9.896°

Ecliptic λ, β

311.002° · 62.005°

HTM-20 index

-840154856