Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1483 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1483, located approximately 4,154.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.52 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.92 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 9.509 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0958 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,131 K (858 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 4,154.51 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.260
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 73,264,778 years

Kepler-1483 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.52 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.136 R♃
Mass
2.92 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.57 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.260
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

#707of 1176

top 60.0%

This planet

1.52R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1483 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.92317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.571.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00265.020.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271752712

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2077858143627173504

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2077858143627173504

System

Kepler-1483

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.520 R⊕ · percentile 39 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.920 M⊕ · percentile 36 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 9.51 d · percentile 64 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,273.78 pc · percentile 91 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.260 · percentile 26 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
9.509 days
Semi-major axis
0.0958 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.50 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 9.51 Earth days (2.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0958 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.010 %

Duration

4.381 h

Impact parameter b

0.143

Rp / R★

0.009683

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,973.5587

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 98 ppm lasting ≈ 4.38 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.009683

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

16.610

Impact parameter (b)

0.143

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,973.5587

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.07520

Eq. Temperature

1,131K

(858 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

265.02

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.260

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-1483

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,337 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.40 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.400 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.250 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.240 dex

Stellar density

0.561 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,273.78 parsec
Light-years 4,154.51 ly
V-band magnitude
14.52 mag
Voyager-speed travel 73,264,778 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.015.03B14.52V14.42Gaia14.44Kepler14.00TESS14.83Sloan g14.41Sloan r14.27Sloan i14.24Sloan z13.40J13.12H13.08K12.97W113.08W212.70W39.42W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.757 mas

Total Proper Motion

10.349 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.10 mas/yr

PM Declination

-9.87 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.318 · y = -0.670 · z = 0.671

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.40974° · Dec 42.15079°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.757° · 9.359°

Ecliptic λ, β

312.472° · 61.895°

HTM-20 index

-1058567308

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