Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1575 b

A super-earth orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Kepler-1575, located approximately 4,066.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.31 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.27 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.32 g
  • An orbital period of 2.553 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0366 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,312 K (1039 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 4,066.90 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.229
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 71,719,855 years

Kepler-1575 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.31 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.117 R♃
Mass
2.27 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.55 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.32 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.229
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

#1072of 1176

top 91.1%

This planet

1.31R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1575 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.27317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.551.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.322.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00803.680.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 270699185

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2128008479575522432

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2128008479575522432

System

Kepler-1575

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.310 R⊕ · percentile 8 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.270 M⊕ · percentile 8 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.55 d · percentile 17 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,246.92 pc · percentile 90 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.229 · percentile 19 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.553 days
Semi-major axis
0.0366 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.19 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.55 Earth days (0.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0366 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.019 %

Duration

1.858 h

Impact parameter b

0.320

Rp / R★

0.013427

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.4516

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 185 ppm lasting ≈ 1.86 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.013427

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

9.660

Impact parameter (b)

0.320

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.4516

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.02940

Eq. Temperature

1,312K

(1039 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

803.68

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.229

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-1575

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,667 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.17 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.920 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.950 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.490 dex

Stellar density

2.619 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,246.92 parsec
Light-years 4,066.90 ly
V-band magnitude
15.53 mag
Voyager-speed travel 71,719,855 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.515.915.94B15.53V15.42Gaia15.42Kepler14.94TESS15.90Sloan g15.37Sloan r15.22Sloan i15.13Sloan z14.27J13.87H13.83K13.80W113.81W212.55W39.55W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.774 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.096 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-7.85 mas/yr

PM Declination

-7.84 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.281 · y = -0.639 · z = 0.716

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 293.74321° · Dec 45.76155°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.454° · 12.090°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.026° · 65.692°

HTM-20 index

-1371201593

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