Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 0.75 Earth radii
A mass of 0.35 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.62 g
An orbital period of 3.433 days
Semi-major axis 0.0442 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,134 K (861 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,011.39 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.260
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 35,470,936 years

Kepler-1563 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

0.75 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.067 R♃

Mass

0.35 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.001 M♃

Density

4.52 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.62 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.260

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

#508of 570

top 88.9%

This planet

0.75R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HD 23472 d 0.75 R⊕ Kepler-378 b 0.75 R⊕ Kepler-1864 b 0.75 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1563 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	0.75	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	0.35	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	4.52	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.62	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	390.57	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 299028607

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2133364308090816768

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2133364308090816768

System

Kepler-1563

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.750 R⊕ · percentile 11 / cohort 570

Mass 0.347 M⊕ · percentile 9 / cohort 570

Orbital period 3.43 d · percentile 38 / cohort 567

Distance 616.70 pc · percentile 74 / cohort 566

ESI 0.260 · percentile 27 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

3.433 days

Semi-major axis

0.0442 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

81.58 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.43 Earth days (0.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0442 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.006 %

Duration

4.156 h

Impact parameter b

0.481

Rp / R★

0.007436

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.9136

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 63 ppm lasting ≈ 4.16 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.007436

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

5.630

Impact parameter (b)

0.481

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.9136

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.07170

Eq. Temperature

1,134K

(861 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

390.57

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.260

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

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-1563

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,765 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.07 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.990 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.000 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.450 dex

Stellar density

0.286 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

616.70 parsec

Light-years 2,011.39 ly

V-band magnitude

13.70 mag

Voyager-speed travel 35,470,936 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.589 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.484 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.27 mas/yr

PM Declination

-1.36 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.198 · y = -0.590 · z = 0.782

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 288.57359° · Dec 51.47277°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.387° · 17.549°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.712° · 72.293°

HTM-20 index

114309942