Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.72 Earth radii
A mass of 3.61 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.22 g
An orbital period of 5.652 days
Semi-major axis 0.0656 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,248 K (975 °C)
Distance from Earth 1,485.11 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.224
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 26,189,837 years

Kepler-514 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.72 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.153 R♃

Mass

3.61 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.011 M♃

Density

3.90 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.22 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.224

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

#373of 1176

top 31.6%

This planet

1.72R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HD 20329 b 1.72 R⊕ Kepler-404 c 1.72 R⊕ Kepler-560 b 1.72 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-514 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.72	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.61	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	3.90	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.22	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	506.41	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 405717552

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2133611659549905024

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2133611659549905024

System

Kepler-514

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.720 R⊕ · percentile 68 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.610 M⊕ · percentile 62 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 5.65 d · percentile 44 / cohort 1164

Distance 455.34 pc · percentile 44 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.224 · percentile 18 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

5.652 days

Semi-major axis

0.0656 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

81.85 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.65 Earth days (1.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0656 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.014 %

Duration

2.929 h

Impact parameter b

0.815

Rp / R★

0.010764

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,005.2789

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 137 ppm lasting ≈ 2.93 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.010764

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

14.886

Impact parameter (b)

0.815

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,005.2789

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.14400

Eq. Temperature

1,248K

(975 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

506.41

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.224

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1512 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1410 b · Super-Earth Kepler-560 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1389 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1450 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1544 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1459 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1638 b · Super-Earth Kepler-737 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1185 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1178 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1040 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: Kepler-514

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,106 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.69 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.440 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.280 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.36

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.230 dex

Stellar density

0.500 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-14.74 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

455.34 parsec

Light-years 1,485.11 ly

V-band magnitude

12.27 mag

Voyager-speed travel 26,189,837 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.168 mas

Total Proper Motion

8.393 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.53 mas/yr

PM Declination

-8.25 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.179 · y = -0.614 · z = 0.769

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.24717° · Dec 50.24237°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.624° · 18.476°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.787° · 71.724°

HTM-20 index

524749622