Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-543 b

A sub-neptune orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-543, located approximately 723.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 2.50 Earth radii
  • A mass of 6.80 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.09 g
  • An orbital period of 13.900 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1023 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 521 K (248 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 723.42 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.478
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 12,757,520 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-543 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
2.50 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.223 R♃
Mass
6.80 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.021 M♃
Density
2.39 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.09 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.478
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

#1168of 1978

top 59.0%

This planet

2.50R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-543 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.002.5011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.006.80317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.391.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.092.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0023.080.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 121123361

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2099620777272914944

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2099620777272914944

System

Kepler-543

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.500 R⊕ · percentile 40 / cohort 1978
Mass 6.800 M⊕ · percentile 37 / cohort 1978
Orbital period 13.90 d · percentile 48 / cohort 1946
Distance 221.80 pc · percentile 30 / cohort 1975
ESI 0.478 · percentile 68 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
13.900 days
Semi-major axis
0.1023 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
87.80 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.90 Earth days (3.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1023 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.115 %

Duration

3.563 h

Impact parameter b

0.728

Rp / R★

0.033509

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,015.8653

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,146 ppm lasting ≈ 3.56 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.033509

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

22.800

Impact parameter (b)

0.728

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,015.8653

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.46100

Eq. Temperature

521K

(248 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

23.08

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.478

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-543

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,671 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.75 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.670 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.700 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.19

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.630 dex

Stellar density

2.230 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-22.49 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
221.80 parsec
Light-years 723.42 ly
V-band magnitude
13.60 mag
Voyager-speed travel 12,757,520 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

9.416.616.57U15.37B13.60V13.37Gaia13.58Kepler12.70TESS14.67Sloan g14.89Sloan r12.41Sloan i13.02Sloan z11.73J11.21H11.09K11.04W111.10W211.27W39.38W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.480 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.248 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.13 mas/yr

PM Declination

6.15 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.230 · y = -0.744 · z = 0.627

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.21873° · Dec 38.86254°

Galactic ℓ, b

69.949° · 13.499°

Ecliptic λ, β

298.035° · 60.637°

HTM-20 index

-695177236

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