Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2014

Kepler-354 d

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-354, located approximately 1,807.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.24 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.07 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.35 g
  • An orbital period of 24.210 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1460 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 451 K (178 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,807.11 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.671
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 31,868,436 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

2 siblings around Kepler-354

Kepler-354 d shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-354 b Super-Earth 1.84 4.04 5.477 741 2014
Kepler-354 c Super-Earth 1.31 2.27 16.934 508 2014
Kepler-354 d this Rocky Terrestrial 1.24 2.07 24.210 451 2014

Kepler-354 d Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.24 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.111 R♃
Mass
2.07 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.97 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.35 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.671
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2014
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#4of 570

top 0.5%

This planet

1.24R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-354 d Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.07317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.971.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.352.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.008.950.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 120578185

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2103860562828483712

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2103860562828483712

System

Kepler-354

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 1.240 R⊕ · percentile 98 / cohort 570
Mass 2.070 M⊕ · percentile 89 / cohort 570
Orbital period 24.21 d · percentile 94 / cohort 567
Distance 554.06 pc · percentile 69 / cohort 566
ESI 0.671 · percentile 81 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
24.210 days
Semi-major axis
0.1460 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.38 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 24.21 Earth days (6.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1460 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.046 %

Duration

4.373 h

Impact parameter b

0.160

Rp / R★

0.019502

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,974.4763

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 458 ppm lasting ≈ 4.37 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019502

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

39.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.160

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,974.4763

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.26400

Eq. Temperature

451K

(178 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

8.95

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.671

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Rowe et al. 2014

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2014-03

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-354

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,648 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

13.80 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.674 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.652 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.627 dex

Stellar density

1.916 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
554.06 parsec
Light-years 1,807.11 ly
V-band magnitude
15.77 mag
Voyager-speed travel 31,868,436 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.917.017.04B15.77V15.56Gaia15.55Kepler14.86TESS16.51Sloan g15.49Sloan r15.14Sloan i14.97Sloan z13.88J13.26H13.16K13.12W113.16W212.78W38.88W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.776 mas

Total Proper Motion

12.881 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

9.80 mas/yr

PM Declination

8.36 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.204 · y = -0.723 · z = 0.660

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.75153° · Dec 41.33567°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.832° · 15.512°

Ecliptic λ, β

296.981° · 63.307°

HTM-20 index

1986258038

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