Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.31 Earth radii
A mass of 5.95 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.12 g
An orbital period of 14.586 days
Semi-major axis 0.1164 AU
Equilibrium temperature 852 K (579 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,440.26 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.306
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 43,033,984 years

Kepler-624 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.31 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.206 R♃

Mass

5.95 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.019 M♃

Density

2.65 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.12 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.306

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

#1486of 1978

top 75.1%

This planet

2.31R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-926 b 2.31 R⊕ Kepler-244 d 2.31 R⊕ Kepler-981 b 2.31 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-624 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.31	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	5.95	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.65	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.12	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	130.76	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 138972811

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2076245950349844608

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2076245950349844608

System

Kepler-624

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.310 R⊕ · percentile 25 / cohort 1978

Mass 5.950 M⊕ · percentile 24 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 14.59 d · percentile 50 / cohort 1946

Distance 748.19 pc · percentile 62 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.306 · percentile 30 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

14.586 days

Semi-major axis

0.1164 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

88.22 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 14.59 Earth days (4.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1164 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.038 %

Duration

4.039 h

Impact parameter b

0.370

Rp / R★

0.018484

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,005.2223

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 379 ppm lasting ≈ 4.04 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.018484

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

21.390

Impact parameter (b)

0.370

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,005.2223

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.15600

Eq. Temperature

852K

(579 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

130.76

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.306

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-624

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,117 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.72 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.180 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.100 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.330 dex

Stellar density

0.590 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

748.19 parsec

Light-years 2,440.26 ly

V-band magnitude

13.64 mag

Voyager-speed travel 43,033,984 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.308 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.374 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

0.31 mas/yr

PM Declination

6.37 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.328 · y = -0.698 · z = 0.637

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.19336° · Dec 39.53969°

Galactic ℓ, b

73.355° · 8.261°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.302° · 59.503°

HTM-20 index

-1957762688