Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.73 Earth radii
A mass of 7.90 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.06 g
An orbital period of 153.980 days
Semi-major axis 0.5520 AU
Equilibrium temperature 330 K (57 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,933.80 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.673
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 69,372,561 years

Kepler-1567 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.73 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.244 R♃

Mass

7.90 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.025 M♃

Density

2.13 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.06 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.673

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

#823of 1978

top 41.6%

This planet

2.73R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-436 b 2.73 R⊕ Kepler-506 b 2.73 R⊕ Kepler-221 d 2.73 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1567 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.73	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	7.90	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.13	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.06	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	2.72	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 121013472

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2100698745343821312

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2100698745343821312

System

Kepler-1567

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.730 R⊕ · percentile 58 / cohort 1978

Mass 7.900 M⊕ · percentile 53 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 153.98 d · percentile 97 / cohort 1946

Distance 1,206.11 pc · percentile 87 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.673 · percentile 90 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

153.980 days

Semi-major axis

0.5520 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.98 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 153.98 Earth days (42.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.5520 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.079 %

Duration

8.994 h

Impact parameter b

0.159

Rp / R★

0.027086

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,998.4896

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 793 ppm lasting ≈ 8.99 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.027086

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

133.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.159

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,998.4896

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.45800

Eq. Temperature

330K

(57 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

2.72

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.673

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — liquid water is physically possible with adequate atmospheric pressure.

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-1567

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,655 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.17 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.930 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.950 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.490 dex

Stellar density

1.901 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,206.11 parsec

Light-years 3,933.80 ly

V-band magnitude

15.92 mag

Voyager-speed travel 69,372,561 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.801 mas

Total Proper Motion

22.860 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-11.39 mas/yr

PM Declination

19.82 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.219 · y = -0.731 · z = 0.647

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.69515° · Dec 40.29189°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.128° · 14.446°

Ecliptic λ, β

297.940° · 62.121°

HTM-20 index

-1653239209