Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-547 b

A neptune-like orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-547, located approximately 1,236.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 4.00 Earth radii
  • A mass of 15.10 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.94 g
  • An orbital period of 6.010 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0580 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 768 K (495 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,236.04 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.272
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 21,797,563 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-547 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
4.00 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.357 R♃
Mass
15.10 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.048 M♃
Density
1.30 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.94 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Neptune-like

ESI Score 0.272
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

#571of 574

top 99.3%

This planet

4.00R⊕

Neptune-like median

6.39R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-547 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.004.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0015.10317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.301.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.942.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0087.710.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158171456

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2106279179170588288

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2106279179170588288

System

Kepler-547

Percentile among Neptune-like cohort

Radius 4.000 R⊕ · percentile 0 / cohort 574
Mass 15.100 M⊕ · percentile 7 / cohort 574
Orbital period 6.01 d · percentile 24 / cohort 524
Distance 378.97 pc · percentile 52 / cohort 572
ESI 0.272 · percentile 44 / cohort 574

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
6.010 days
Semi-major axis
0.0580 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.75 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 6.01 Earth days (1.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0580 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.274 %

Duration

2.224 h

Impact parameter b

0.436

Rp / R★

0.049896

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,007.0848

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 2,739 ppm lasting ≈ 2.22 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.049896

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

18.300

Impact parameter (b)

0.436

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,007.0848

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.15300

Eq. Temperature

768K

(495 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

87.71

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.272

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-547

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,828 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.88 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.730 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.780 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.610 dex

Stellar density

4.148 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
378.97 parsec
Light-years 1,236.04 ly
V-band magnitude
14.48 mag
Voyager-speed travel 21,797,563 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.315.215.16B14.48V14.21Gaia14.25Kepler13.56TESS15.03Sloan g14.17Sloan r13.91Sloan i13.72Sloan z12.59J12.11H12.00K11.82W111.96W212.11W39.33W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.610 mas

Total Proper Motion

19.362 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-14.77 mas/yr

PM Declination

-12.51 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.199 · y = -0.687 · z = 0.699

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.11859° · Dec 44.34521°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.832° · 16.412°

Ecliptic λ, β

299.400° · 66.147°

HTM-20 index

103049139

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