Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1583 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Kepler-1583, located approximately 1,317.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.60 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.16 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.43 g
  • An orbital period of 9.328 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0831 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 788 K (515 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,317.45 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.357
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 23,233,260 years

Kepler-1583 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.60 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.054 R♃
Mass
0.16 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.000 M♃
Density
3.97 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.43 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.357
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

#550of 570

top 96.3%

This planet

0.60R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1583 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.6011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.16317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.971.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.432.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00124.310.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158270841

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2130695518492411904

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2130695518492411904

System

Kepler-1583

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.600 R⊕ · percentile 3 / cohort 570
Mass 0.156 M⊕ · percentile 2 / cohort 570
Orbital period 9.33 d · percentile 77 / cohort 567
Distance 403.93 pc · percentile 53 / cohort 566
ESI 0.357 · percentile 52 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
9.328 days
Semi-major axis
0.0831 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.86 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 9.33 Earth days (2.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0831 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.005 %

Duration

3.936 h

Impact parameter b

0.044

Rp / R★

0.005899

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.8532

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 45 ppm lasting ≈ 3.94 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.005899

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

17.960

Impact parameter (b)

0.044

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.8532

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.20600

Eq. Temperature

788K

(515 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

124.31

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.357

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1583

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,645 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.27 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.910 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.940 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.490 dex

Stellar density

0.780 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-76.09 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
403.93 parsec
Light-years 1,317.45 ly
V-band magnitude
12.98 mag
Voyager-speed travel 23,233,260 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.513.813.82B12.98V12.84Gaia12.90Kepler12.37TESS13.35Sloan g12.81Sloan r12.70Sloan i12.65Sloan z11.69J11.33H11.28K11.21W111.26W211.26W39.46W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.447 mas

Total Proper Motion

24.598 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

2.24 mas/yr

PM Declination

-24.50 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.192 · y = -0.654 · z = 0.732

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.38693° · Dec 47.01652°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.495° · 17.232°

Ecliptic λ, β

301.887° · 68.649°

HTM-20 index

-1804450367

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