Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.90 Earth radii
A mass of 4.27 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.18 g
An orbital period of 38.131 days
Semi-major axis 0.2322 AU
Equilibrium temperature 613 K (340 °C)
Distance from Earth 4,824.30 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.455
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 85,076,594 years

Kepler-1472 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.90 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.170 R♃

Mass

4.27 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.013 M♃

Density

3.42 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.18 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.455

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

#125of 1176

top 10.5%

This planet

1.90R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-158 c 1.90 R⊕ Kepler-349 b 1.90 R⊕ Kepler-196 b 1.90 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1472 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.90	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	4.27	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	3.42	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.18	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	57.08	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 27239856

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2134804977563800064

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2134804977563800064

System

Kepler-1472

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.900 R⊕ · percentile 88 / cohort 1176

Mass 4.270 M⊕ · percentile 81 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 38.13 d · percentile 94 / cohort 1164

Distance 1,479.14 pc · percentile 94 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.455 · percentile 68 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

38.131 days

Semi-major axis

0.2322 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.14 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 38.13 Earth days (10.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.2322 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.020 %

Duration

6.345 h

Impact parameter b

0.798

Rp / R★

0.014252

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,992.3666

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 199 ppm lasting ≈ 6.35 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.014252

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

28.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.798

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,992.3666

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.15700

Eq. Temperature

613K

(340 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

57.08

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.455

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-1472

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,159 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.09 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.250 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.160 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.310 dex

Stellar density

0.309 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,479.14 parsec

Light-years 4,824.30 ly

V-band magnitude

14.67 mag

Voyager-speed travel 85,076,594 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.647 mas

Total Proper Motion

3.508 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.47 mas/yr

PM Declination

-3.19 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.275 · y = -0.595 · z = 0.755

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 294.85262° · Dec 49.05745°

Galactic ℓ, b

81.815° · 12.900°

Ecliptic λ, β

318.331° · 68.366°

HTM-20 index

1674055108