Artist impression of Kepler-1544 b exoplanet
Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016 Habitable Zone

Kepler-1544 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1544, located approximately 1,092.9 light-years from Earth.

Image: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · Martin Vargic / Halcyon Maps

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.78 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.82 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.21 g
  • An orbital period of 168.811 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.5447 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 269 K (-4 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,092.92 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.827
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 19,273,575 years

Context from the literature

Kepler-1544b is a potentially habitable exoplanet announced in 2016 and located 1138 light years away, in the constellation of Cygnus.

Excerpted from Wikipedia · full article

Kepler-1544 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.78 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.159 R♃
Mass
3.82 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.012 M♃
Density
3.72 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.827
HZ Position Habitable
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#282of 1176

top 23.9%

This planet

1.78R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1544 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.82317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.721.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.212.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.830.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 28090925

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2086784185178032384

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2086784185178032384

System

Kepler-1544

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.780 R⊕ · percentile 75 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.820 M⊕ · percentile 69 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 168.81 d · percentile 99 / cohort 1164
Distance 335.09 pc · percentile 35 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.827 · percentile 92 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
168.811 days
Semi-major axis
0.5447 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.80 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 168.81 Earth days (46.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.5446 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.061 %

Duration

6.500 h

Impact parameter b

0.584

Rp / R★

0.021983

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,044.4409

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 612 ppm lasting ≈ 6.50 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021983

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

163.200

Impact parameter (b)

0.584

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,044.4409

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.63000

Eq. Temperature

269K

(-4 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

0.83

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.827

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Within the conservative habitable zone — surface water would be frozen.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1544

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,886 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.34 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.740 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.810 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.610 dex

Stellar density

2.110 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
335.09 parsec
Light-years 1,092.92 ly
V-band magnitude
14.29 mag
Voyager-speed travel 19,273,575 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.315.515.49B14.29V14.04Gaia14.06Kepler13.39TESS14.89Sloan g14.02Sloan r13.70Sloan i13.54Sloan z12.48J11.99H11.90K11.83W111.90W211.94W39.31W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.955 mas

Total Proper Motion

31.152 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

31.03 mas/yr

PM Declination

2.73 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.299 · y = -0.581 · z = 0.757

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.28522° · Dec 49.21245°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.709° · 11.561°

Ecliptic λ, β

322.291° · 67.759°

HTM-20 index

1934480927

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