Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1511 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1511, located approximately 4,812.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.68 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.46 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 23.238 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1753 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 903 K (630 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 4,812.76 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.321
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 84,872,981 years

Kepler-1511 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.68 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.150 R♃
Mass
3.46 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.01 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.321
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

#435of 1176

top 36.9%

This planet

1.68R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1511 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.46317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.011.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00228.220.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158725179

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2102928726723805568

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2102928726723805568

System

Kepler-1511

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.680 R⊕ · percentile 62 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.460 M⊕ · percentile 56 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 23.24 d · percentile 88 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,475.60 pc · percentile 94 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.321 · percentile 42 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
23.238 days
Semi-major axis
0.1753 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.98 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 23.24 Earth days (6.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1753 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.018 %

Duration

8.191 h

Impact parameter b

0.187

Rp / R★

0.012418

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,976.5414

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 180 ppm lasting ≈ 8.19 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.012418

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

21.570

Impact parameter (b)

0.187

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,976.5414

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.11900

Eq. Temperature

903K

(630 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

228.22

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.321

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

Host System: Kepler-1511

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,064 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.31 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.290 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.170 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.14

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.280 dex

Stellar density

0.352 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,475.60 parsec
Light-years 4,812.76 ly
V-band magnitude
13.56 mag
Voyager-speed travel 84,872,981 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

9.114.314.00B13.56V13.50Gaia13.93Kepler13.18TESS14.29Sloan g13.87Sloan r13.78Sloan i12.71J12.54H12.47K12.47W112.48W212.44W39.12W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.649 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.646 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-2.22 mas/yr

PM Declination

-6.27 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.230 · y = -0.692 · z = 0.684

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 288.42119° · Dec 43.17977°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.393° · 14.426°

Ecliptic λ, β

302.435° · 64.558°

HTM-20 index

249940340

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