Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1592 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1592, located approximately 5,347.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.54 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.99 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 3.057 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0400 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,202 K (929 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 5,347.23 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.242
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 94,298,392 years

Kepler-1592 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.54 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.137 R♃
Mass
2.99 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.50 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.242
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

#670of 1176

top 56.9%

This planet

1.54R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1592 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.99317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.501.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001,918.340.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 138364751

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2052085934674652544

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2052085934674652544

System

Kepler-1592

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.540 R⊕ · percentile 42 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.990 M⊕ · percentile 38 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 3.06 d · percentile 22 / cohort 1164
Distance 1,639.47 pc · percentile 96 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.242 · percentile 21 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.057 days
Semi-major axis
0.0400 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.10 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.06 Earth days (0.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0400 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.014 %

Duration

3.523 h

Impact parameter b

0.254

Rp / R★

0.011281

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,967.5011

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 144 ppm lasting ≈ 3.52 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.011281

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

6.604

Impact parameter (b)

0.254

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,967.5011

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.02440

Eq. Temperature

1,202K

(929 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,918.34

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.242

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-1592

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,213 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.69 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.280 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.180 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.290 dex

Stellar density

0.583 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,639.47 parsec
Light-years 5,347.23 ly
V-band magnitude
14.94 mag
Voyager-speed travel 94,298,392 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.815.615.56B14.94V14.79Gaia14.80Kepler14.33TESS15.24Sloan g14.77Sloan r14.61Sloan i14.55Sloan z13.70J13.39H13.35K13.35W113.38W212.60W38.82W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.582 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.820 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.01 mas/yr

PM Declination

-3.76 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.317 · y = -0.717 · z = 0.621

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 293.85062° · Dec 38.39774°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.838° · 8.641°

Ecliptic λ, β

307.659° · 58.758°

HTM-20 index

1131447702

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