Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.75 Earth radii
A mass of 3.71 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.21 g
An orbital period of 7.259 days
Semi-major axis 0.0718 AU
Equilibrium temperature 967 K (694 °C)
Distance from Earth 4,432.30 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.295
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 78,163,553 years

Kepler-1516 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.75 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.156 R♃

Mass

3.71 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.012 M♃

Density

3.80 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.295

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

#326of 1176

top 27.6%

This planet

1.75R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-301 d 1.75 R⊕ Kepler-1243 b 1.75 R⊕ Kepler-122 f 1.75 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1516 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.75	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.71	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	3.80	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.21	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	615.25	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159763612

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2126237857838346368

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2126237857838346368

System

Kepler-1516

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.750 R⊕ · percentile 71 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.710 M⊕ · percentile 64 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 7.26 d · percentile 54 / cohort 1164

Distance 1,358.95 pc · percentile 93 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.295 · percentile 36 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

7.259 days

Semi-major axis

0.0718 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

87.55 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 7.26 Earth days (2.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0718 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.025 %

Duration

6.198 h

Impact parameter b

0.204

Rp / R★

0.014902

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.7119

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 248 ppm lasting ≈ 6.20 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.014902

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

8.917

Impact parameter (b)

0.204

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.7119

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.05280

Eq. Temperature

967K

(694 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

615.25

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.295

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-1516

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,904 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.07 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.070 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.040 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.400 dex

Stellar density

0.226 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,358.95 parsec

Light-years 4,432.30 ly

V-band magnitude

14.65 mag

Voyager-speed travel 78,163,553 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.707 mas

Total Proper Motion

15.922 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.32 mas/yr

PM Declination

-15.57 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.261 · y = -0.663 · z = 0.701

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.49458° · Dec 44.52342°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.601° · 12.972°

Ecliptic λ, β

308.386° · 65.123°

HTM-20 index

559613179