Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 0.92 Earth radii
A mass of 0.72 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.85 g
An orbital period of 13.647 days
Semi-major axis 0.1198 AU
Equilibrium temperature 913 K (640 °C)
Distance from Earth 4,194.69 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.349
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 73,973,395 years

Kepler-1607 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

0.92 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.082 R♃

Mass

0.72 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.002 M♃

Density

5.09 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.85 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.349

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

#396of 570

top 69.3%

This planet

0.92R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

TRAPPIST-1 e 0.92 R⊕ Kepler-1365 b 0.92 R⊕ Kepler-1338 b 0.92 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1607 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	0.92	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	0.72	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	5.09	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.85	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	449.63	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 272179260

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2077241558125147904

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2077241558125147904

System

Kepler-1607

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.920 R⊕ · percentile 29 / cohort 570

Mass 0.721 M⊕ · percentile 26 / cohort 570

Orbital period 13.65 d · percentile 86 / cohort 567

Distance 1,286.10 pc · percentile 97 / cohort 566

ESI 0.349 · percentile 51 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

13.647 days

Semi-major axis

0.1198 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

86.47 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.65 Earth days (3.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1198 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.006 %

Duration

7.769 h

Impact parameter b

0.014

Rp / R★

0.007247

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.2362

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 63 ppm lasting ≈ 7.77 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.007247

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

13.529

Impact parameter (b)

0.014

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.2362

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.09310

Eq. Temperature

913K

(640 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

449.63

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.349

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

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-1607

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,116 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.16 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.210 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.140 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.330 dex

Stellar density

0.150 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,286.10 parsec

Light-years 4,194.69 ly

V-band magnitude

13.97 mag

Voyager-speed travel 73,973,395 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.749 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.965 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.44 mas/yr

PM Declination

3.99 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.323 · y = -0.661 · z = 0.678

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.05987° · Dec 42.65606°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.439° · 9.178°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.821° · 62.188°

HTM-20 index

1383369634