Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.56 Earth radii
A mass of 3.05 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.25 g
An orbital period of 14.556 days
Semi-major axis 0.1159 AU
Equilibrium temperature 787 K (514 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,443.10 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.380
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 43,084,139 years

Kepler-1501 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.56 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.139 R♃

Mass

3.05 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.010 M♃

Density

4.41 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.25 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.380

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

#636of 1176

top 54.0%

This planet

1.56R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-338 e 1.56 R⊕ Kepler-402 c 1.56 R⊕ Kepler-309 b 1.56 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1501 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.56	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.05	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	4.41	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.25	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	100.00	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159216808

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2101875497665518080

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2101875497665518080

System

Kepler-1501

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.560 R⊕ · percentile 45 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.050 M⊕ · percentile 41 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 14.56 d · percentile 77 / cohort 1164

Distance 749.06 pc · percentile 64 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.380 · percentile 57 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

14.556 days

Semi-major axis

0.1159 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.93 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 14.56 Earth days (4.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1159 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.010 %

Duration

4.570 h

Impact parameter b

0.031

Rp / R★

0.010627

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,974.0432

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 104 ppm lasting ≈ 4.57 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.010627

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

24.640

Impact parameter (b)

0.031

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,974.0432

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.15500

Eq. Temperature

787K

(514 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

100.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.380

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-1501

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,229 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.75 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.300 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.200 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.280 dex

Stellar density

0.720 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

749.06 parsec

Light-years 2,443.10 ly

V-band magnitude

13.68 mag

Voyager-speed travel 43,084,139 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.306 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.217 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

9.04 mas/yr

PM Declination

1.79 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.253 · y = -0.699 · z = 0.669

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 289.91859° · Dec 42.00143°

Galactic ℓ, b

73.758° · 12.935°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.031° · 63.106°

HTM-20 index

427399624