Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.47 Earth radii
A mass of 6.66 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.09 g
An orbital period of 448.304 days
Semi-major axis 0.6762 AU
Equilibrium temperature 369 K (96 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,337.76 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.643
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 41,226,320 years

Kepler-1632 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.47 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.220 R♃

Mass

6.66 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.021 M♃

Density

2.43 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.09 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.643

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

#1226of 1978

top 61.9%

This planet

2.47R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-263 c 2.47 R⊕ Kepler-1101 b 2.47 R⊕ Kepler-269 b 2.47 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1632 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.47	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	6.66	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.43	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.09	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	6.06	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271046694

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2078297810838102272

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2078297810838102272

System

Kepler-1632

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.470 R⊕ · percentile 37 / cohort 1978

Mass 6.660 M⊕ · percentile 35 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 448.30 d · percentile 100 / cohort 1946

Distance 716.76 pc · percentile 60 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.643 · percentile 87 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

448.304 days

Semi-major axis

0.6762 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.99 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 1.23 Earth years on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.6762 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.035 %

Duration

12.713 h

Impact parameter b

0.217

Rp / R★

0.018729

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,398.1759

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 349 ppm lasting ≈ 12.71 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.018729

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

139.830

Impact parameter (b)

0.217

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,398.1759

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.94300

Eq. Temperature

369K

(96 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

6.06

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.643

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — liquid water is physically possible with adequate atmospheric pressure.

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-1632

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,137 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.09 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.190 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.120 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.330 dex

Stellar density

0.471 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-56.53 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

716.76 parsec

Light-years 2,337.76 ly

V-band magnitude

13.22 mag

Voyager-speed travel 41,226,320 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.366 mas

Total Proper Motion

16.607 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

5.61 mas/yr

PM Declination

-15.63 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.299 · y = -0.656 · z = 0.694

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 294.49488° · Dec 43.91356°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.022° · 10.775°

Ecliptic λ, β

312.530° · 63.780°

HTM-20 index

-1286518428

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