Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-1604 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1604, located approximately 1,765.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.41 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.57 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 0.684 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0141 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 2,023 K (1750 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,765.12 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.135
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 31,127,896 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1604 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.41 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.126 R♃
Mass
2.57 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
5.04 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.135
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

#902of 1176

top 76.6%

This planet

1.41R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1604 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.57317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.041.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001,391.400.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 351911398

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2105964306529014400

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2105964306529014400

System

Kepler-1604

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.410 R⊕ · percentile 22 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.570 M⊕ · percentile 21 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 0.68 d · percentile 3 / cohort 1164
Distance 541.19 pc · percentile 50 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.135 · percentile 3 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.684 days
Semi-major axis
0.0141 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
40.98 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 16.4 hours long on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0141 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.029 %

Duration

0.999 h

Impact parameter b

0.633

Rp / R★

0.016915

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.6604

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 286 ppm lasting ≈ 1.00 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016915

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

1.268

Impact parameter (b)

0.633

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.6604

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.02600

Eq. Temperature

2,023K

(1750 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,391.40

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.135

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1604

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,976 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.17 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.760 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.810 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.590 dex

Stellar density

1.940 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
541.19 parsec
Light-years 1,765.12 ly
V-band magnitude
15.22 mag
Voyager-speed travel 31,127,896 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.016.116.08B15.22V14.90Gaia14.92Kepler14.28TESS15.67Sloan g14.84Sloan r14.59Sloan i14.45Sloan z13.39J12.92H12.82K12.72W112.82W212.99W39.05W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.819 mas

Total Proper Motion

2.748 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

2.71 mas/yr

PM Declination

-0.48 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.190 · y = -0.689 · z = 0.700

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.41065° · Dec 44.41223°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.700° · 16.906°

Ecliptic λ, β

298.235° · 66.347°

HTM-20 index

127739921

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