Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-507 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-507, located approximately 1,277.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.30 Earth radii
  • A mass of 5.70 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 3.37 g
  • An orbital period of 3.568 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0478 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,407 K (1134 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,277.37 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.171
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 22,526,426 years

Kepler-507 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.30 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.116 R♃
Mass
5.70 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.018 M♃
Density
14.83 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
3.37 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.171
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

#1090of 1176

top 92.6%

This planet

1.30R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-507 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.005.70317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.5114.831.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.003.372.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00877.330.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 5.697 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 27992970

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2135314184585149696

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2135314184585149696

System

Kepler-507

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.300 R⊕ · percentile 7 / cohort 1176
Mass 5.697 M⊕ · percentile 93 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 3.57 d · percentile 27 / cohort 1164
Distance 391.64 pc · percentile 39 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.171 · percentile 7 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.568 days
Semi-major axis
0.0478 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
85.83 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.57 Earth days (1.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0478 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.010 %

Duration

3.246 h

Impact parameter b

0.816

Rp / R★

0.009200

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,002.7436

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 98 ppm lasting ≈ 3.25 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.009200

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

4.810

Impact parameter (b)

0.816

RV semi-amplitude (K)

2.180 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,002.7436

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.12200

Eq. Temperature

1,407K

(1134 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

877.33

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.171

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

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

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-507

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,113 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.80 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.320 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.160 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.260 dex

Stellar density

0.560 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-5.43 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
391.64 parsec
Light-years 1,277.37 ly
V-band magnitude
12.20 mag
Voyager-speed travel 22,526,426 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.712.612.56B12.20V11.92Gaia11.99Kepler11.53TESS12.31Sloan g11.93Sloan r11.86Sloan i11.83Sloan z10.99J10.73H10.67K10.66W110.70W210.62W38.74W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.525 mas

Total Proper Motion

12.003 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.97 mas/yr

PM Declination

11.33 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.290 · y = -0.568 · z = 0.771

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.01881° · Dec 50.40905°

Galactic ℓ, b

83.704° · 12.277°

Ecliptic λ, β

323.479° · 68.885°

HTM-20 index

-171608340

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