Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.36 Earth radii
A mass of 6.17 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.11 g
An orbital period of 4.903 days
Semi-major axis 0.0601 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,247 K (974 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,236.12 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.200
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 39,434,014 years

Kepler-535 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.36 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.211 R♃

Mass

6.17 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.019 M♃

Density

2.58 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.11 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.200

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

#1395of 1978

top 70.5%

This planet

2.36R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-1022 b 2.36 R⊕ Kepler-482 b 2.36 R⊕ Kepler-184 b 2.36 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-535 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.36	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	6.17	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.58	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.11	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	601.89	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 351192037

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2134893660047959040

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2134893660047959040

System

Kepler-535

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.360 R⊕ · percentile 29 / cohort 1978

Mass 6.170 M⊕ · percentile 28 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 4.90 d · percentile 12 / cohort 1946

Distance 685.60 pc · percentile 58 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.200 · percentile 7 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

4.903 days

Semi-major axis

0.0601 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.93 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.90 Earth days (1.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0601 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.034 %

Duration

2.870 h

Impact parameter b

0.720

Rp / R★

0.016955

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,005.9007

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 343 ppm lasting ≈ 2.87 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016955

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

13.195

Impact parameter (b)

0.720

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,005.9007

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.08770

Eq. Temperature

1,247K

(974 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

601.89

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.200

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-535

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,123 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.24 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.270 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.180 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.13

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.300 dex

Stellar density

0.580 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

685.60 parsec

Light-years 2,236.12 ly

V-band magnitude

13.21 mag

Voyager-speed travel 39,434,014 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.430 mas

Total Proper Motion

15.486 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.22 mas/yr

PM Declination

-15.48 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.289 · y = -0.579 · z = 0.763

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.56666° · Dec 49.69617°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.921° · 12.200°

Ecliptic λ, β

321.821° · 68.408°

HTM-20 index

-455642354