Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2014

Kepler-371 b

A super-earth orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Kepler-371, located approximately 2,652.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.89 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.23 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.18 g
  • An orbital period of 34.763 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.2000 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 554 K (281 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,652.27 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.501
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 46,772,858 years

Context from the literature

Kepler-371b is a confirmed Super-Earth sized exoplanet, orbiting around the G-type star Kepler-371 every 35 days about 2,700 light-years away from Earth.

Excerpted from Wikipedia · full article

1 sibling around Kepler-371

Kepler-371 b shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-371 b this Super-Earth 1.89 4.23 34.763 554 2014
Kepler-371 c Super-Earth 1.78 3.82 67.968 443 2014

Kepler-371 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.89 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.169 R♃
Mass
4.23 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.44 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.18 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.501
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

#143of 1176

top 12.1%

This planet

1.89R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-371 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.23317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.441.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.182.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0041.740.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137550286

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2052702348375966208

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2052702348375966208

System

Kepler-371

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.890 R⊕ · percentile 87 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.230 M⊕ · percentile 80 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 34.76 d · percentile 93 / cohort 1164
Distance 813.19 pc · percentile 68 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.501 · percentile 73 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
34.763 days
Semi-major axis
0.2000 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.04 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 34.76 Earth days (9.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.2000 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.029 %

Duration

4.174 h

Impact parameter b

0.620

Rp / R★

0.016763

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,994.7349

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 294 ppm lasting ≈ 4.17 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016763

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

43.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.620

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,994.7349

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.24600

Eq. Temperature

554K

(281 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

41.74

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.501

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

Rowe et al. 2014

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2014-03

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-371

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,666 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

12.88 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.992 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.876 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.20

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.390 dex

Stellar density

0.450 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
813.19 parsec
Light-years 2,652.27 ly
V-band magnitude
14.00 mag
Voyager-speed travel 46,772,858 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.714.314.09B14.00V13.80Gaia13.87Kepler13.35TESS14.29Sloan g13.81Sloan r13.68Sloan i13.61Sloan z12.70J12.36H12.34K12.28W112.32W211.59W38.68W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.201 mas

Total Proper Motion

8.132 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

3.52 mas/yr

PM Declination

-7.33 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.297 · y = -0.722 · z = 0.625

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.32648° · Dec 38.65754°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.515° · 9.818°

Ecliptic λ, β

305.602° · 59.368°

HTM-20 index

1169185886

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