Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.32 Earth radii
A mass of 2.30 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.32 g
An orbital period of 14.033 days
Semi-major axis 0.1168 AU
Equilibrium temperature 783 K (510 °C)
Distance from Earth 7,716.92 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.401
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 136,087,809 years

Kepler-1506 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.32 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.118 R♃

Mass

2.30 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.007 M♃

Density

5.50 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.32 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.401

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

#1049of 1176

top 89.1%

This planet

1.32R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-157 b 1.32 R⊕ LP 890-9 b 1.32 R⊕ Kepler-383 b 1.32 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1506 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.32	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	2.30	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	5.50	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.32	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	235.81	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 122298422

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2101797535418431104

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2101797535418431104

System

Kepler-1506

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.320 R⊕ · percentile 9 / cohort 1176

Mass 2.300 M⊕ · percentile 9 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 14.03 d · percentile 76 / cohort 1164

Distance 2,366.02 pc · percentile 99 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.401 · percentile 60 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

14.033 days

Semi-major axis

0.1168 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.85 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 14.03 Earth days (3.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1168 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.021 %

Duration

6.844 h

Impact parameter b

0.044

Rp / R★

0.013369

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,971.0626

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 211 ppm lasting ≈ 6.84 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.013369

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

15.820

Impact parameter (b)

0.044

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,971.0626

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.04940

Eq. Temperature

783K

(510 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

235.81

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.401

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-1506

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,676 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.98 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.930 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.950 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.490 dex

Stellar density

0.381 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

2,366.02 parsec

Light-years 7,716.92 ly

V-band magnitude

15.84 mag

Voyager-speed travel 136,087,809 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.393 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.818 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.94 mas/yr

PM Declination

-11.66 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.258 · y = -0.704 · z = 0.662

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.14988° · Dec 41.46456°

Galactic ℓ, b

73.335° · 12.551°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.041° · 62.543°

HTM-20 index

303492348