Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2014

Kepler-413 b

A neptune-like orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-413, located approximately 2,764.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 4.35 Earth radii
  • A mass of 67.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 3.55 g
  • An orbital period of 66.262 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.3553 AU
  • Distance from Earth 2,764.29 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.602
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 48,748,243 years

Context from the literature

Kepler-413b is a circumbinary planet orbiting stars Kepler-413 A and Kepler-413 B, which respectively are K and M dwarfs. These host stars orbit each other with orbital period of 10.1 days.

Excerpted from Wikipedia · full article

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Circumbinary planet

Kepler-413 b orbits a binary-star pair rather than a single host — a minority architecture in the confirmed catalogue.

Kepler-413 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
4.35 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.388 R♃
Mass
67.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.211 M♃
Density
3.20 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
3.55 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Neptune-like

ESI Score 0.602
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2014
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#483of 574

top 84.0%

This planet

4.35R⊕

Neptune-like median

6.39R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-413 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.004.3511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0067.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.201.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.003.552.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 67.000 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 298969838

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2133352385261516928

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2133352385261516928

System

Kepler-413

Percentile among Neptune-like cohort

Radius 4.347 R⊕ · percentile 16 / cohort 574
Mass 67.000 M⊕ · percentile 84 / cohort 574
Orbital period 66.26 d · percentile 75 / cohort 524
Distance 847.54 pc · percentile 69 / cohort 572
ESI 0.602 · percentile 99 / cohort 574

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
66.262 days
Semi-major axis
0.3553 AU
Eccentricity
0.118
Inclination
89.93 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 66.26 Earth days (18.1% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.3553 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Rp / R★

0.051400

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,096.6400

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.051400

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

27.544

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,096.6400

Long. of periastron (ω)

94.60°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.41900

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.602

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Kostov et al. 2014

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2014-03

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-413

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,700 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.776 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.820 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.20

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.572 dex

Stellar density

1.755 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-27.78 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

5.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
847.54 parsec
Light-years 2,764.29 ly
V-band magnitude
15.89 mag
Voyager-speed travel 48,748,243 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.716.816.82B15.89V15.59Gaia15.52Kepler14.97TESS16.32Sloan g15.51Sloan r15.18Sloan i15.00Sloan z13.99J13.51H13.42K13.16W113.17W212.95W39.68W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.152 mas

Total Proper Motion

19.026 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.92 mas/yr

PM Declination

-19.00 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.199 · y = -0.595 · z = 0.779

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 288.51067° · Dec 51.16242°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.069° · 17.471°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.177° · 72.026°

HTM-20 index

209918049

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