Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 3.31 Earth radii
A mass of 11.00 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.00 g
An orbital period of 24.316 days
Semi-major axis 0.1700 AU
Equilibrium temperature 683 K (410 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,963.15 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.332
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 69,890,220 years

Kepler-606 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

3.31 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.295 R♃

Mass

11.00 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.035 M♃

Density

1.67 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.00 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.332

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

#272of 1978

top 13.7%

This planet

3.31R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

DMPP-1 c 3.31 R⊕ K2-95 b 3.31 R⊕ Kepler-207 d 3.31 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-606 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	3.31	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	11.00	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.67	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.00	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	71.84	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 63286249

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2126360831342941696

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2126360831342941696

System

Kepler-606

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 3.310 R⊕ · percentile 86 / cohort 1978

Mass 11.000 M⊕ · percentile 80 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 24.32 d · percentile 68 / cohort 1946

Distance 1,215.11 pc · percentile 87 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.332 · percentile 36 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

24.316 days

Semi-major axis

0.1700 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

88.94 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 24.32 Earth days (6.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1700 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.064 %

Duration

4.138 h

Impact parameter b

0.653

Rp / R★

0.024725

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,016.4080

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 643 ppm lasting ≈ 4.14 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.024725

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

35.500

Impact parameter (b)

0.653

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,016.4080

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.14000

Eq. Temperature

683K

(410 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

71.84

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.332

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

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-606

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,161 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.88 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.220 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.130 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.320 dex

Stellar density

1.566 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,215.11 parsec

Light-years 3,963.15 ly

V-band magnitude

14.90 mag

Voyager-speed travel 69,890,220 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.795 mas

Total Proper Motion

10.462 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.59 mas/yr

PM Declination

-10.34 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.273 · y = -0.661 · z = 0.699

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.42737° · Dec 44.38124°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.766° · 12.310°

Ecliptic λ, β

309.740° · 64.756°

HTM-20 index

-740501187