Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2015

Kepler-441 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-441, located approximately 874.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.64 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.33 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.24 g
  • An orbital period of 207.248 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.6400 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 189 K (-84 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 874.11 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.645
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 15,414,891 years

Kepler-441 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.64 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.150 R♃
Mass
3.33 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.15 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.24 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.645
HZ Position Outer
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2015
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#495of 1176

top 42.0%

This planet

1.64R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-441 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.33317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.151.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.242.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.210.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 267667567

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2131799084568477056

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2131799084568477056

System

Kepler-441

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.640 R⊕ · percentile 56 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.330 M⊕ · percentile 51 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 207.25 d · percentile 100 / cohort 1164
Distance 268.00 pc · percentile 29 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.645 · percentile 83 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
207.248 days
Semi-major axis
0.6400 AU
Eccentricity
0.100
Inclination
89.97 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 207.25 Earth days (56.7% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.6400 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.081 %

Duration

6.050 h

Impact parameter b

0.250

Rp / R★

0.028000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,667.7764

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 809 ppm lasting ≈ 6.05 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.028000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

260.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.250

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,667.7764

Angular separation (arcsec)

2.39000

Eq. Temperature

189K

(-84 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

0.21

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.645

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Beyond the outer HZ boundary (too cold) — surface water would be frozen.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Torres et al. 2015

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2015-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-441

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,340 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.90 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.550 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.572 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.57

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.715 dex

Stellar density

4.940 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
268.00 parsec
Light-years 874.11 ly
V-band magnitude
15.57 mag
Voyager-speed travel 15,414,891 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.417.417.38B15.57V15.14Gaia15.14Kepler14.24TESS16.37Sloan g15.11Sloan r14.61Sloan i14.30Sloan z13.04J12.40H12.29K12.17W112.19W212.22W39.44W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.703 mas

Total Proper Motion

34.898 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

6.47 mas/yr

PM Declination

34.29 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.165 · y = -0.635 · z = 0.755

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 284.56695° · Dec 49.01271°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.009° · 19.075°

Ecliptic λ, β

300.309° · 70.923°

HTM-20 index

-405406423

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