Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1547 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1547, located approximately 2,200.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.90 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.67 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.82 g
  • An orbital period of 0.693 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0156 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 3,186 K (2913 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,200.56 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.079
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 38,806,842 years

Kepler-1547 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.90 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.080 R♃
Mass
0.67 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.002 M♃
Density
5.02 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.82 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.079
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

#415of 570

top 72.6%

This planet

0.90R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1547 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.9011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.67317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.021.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.822.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.005,760.940.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 164646094

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2104890633423618048

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2104890633423618048

System

Kepler-1547

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.900 R⊕ · percentile 27 / cohort 570
Mass 0.666 M⊕ · percentile 23 / cohort 570
Orbital period 0.69 d · percentile 6 / cohort 567
Distance 674.70 pc · percentile 78 / cohort 566
ESI 0.079 · percentile 0 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.693 days
Semi-major axis
0.0156 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
61.66 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 16.6 hours long on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0156 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.006 %

Duration

1.082 h

Impact parameter b

0.259

Rp / R★

0.007333

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.8001

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 61 ppm lasting ≈ 1.08 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.007333

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

4.803

Impact parameter (b)

0.259

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.8001

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.02310

Eq. Temperature

3,186K

(2913 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

5,760.94

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.079

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1547

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,078 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.39 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.180 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.120 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.340 dex

Stellar density

0.600 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
674.70 parsec
Light-years 2,200.56 ly
V-band magnitude
13.46 mag
Voyager-speed travel 38,806,842 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.914.114.06B13.46V13.41Gaia13.45Kepler12.97TESS13.85Sloan g13.40Sloan r13.28Sloan i13.23Sloan z12.33J12.06H12.00K11.99W112.02W212.58W38.90W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.453 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.399 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.53 mas/yr

PM Declination

-8.71 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.176 · y = -0.719 · z = 0.672

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 283.76404° · Dec 42.22210°

Galactic ℓ, b

72.109° · 17.219°

Ecliptic λ, β

294.165° · 64.511°

HTM-20 index

1576807928

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