Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 13.18 Earth radii
An orbital period of 2.817 days
Semi-major axis 0.0383 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,219 K (946 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,065.03 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.039
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 54,051,826 years

Kepler-670 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

13.18 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.176 R♃

Mass

— M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

— M♃

Density

— g/cm³

Surface Gravity

— g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.039

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

#899of 1771

top 50.7%

This planet

13.18R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HATS-30 b 13.17 R⊕ WASP-110 b 13.19 R⊕ HD 37605 b 13.20 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-670 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	13.18	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	—	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	—	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	—	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	528.22	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 27990610

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2086830502105850240

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2086830502105850240

System

Kepler-670

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.180 R⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1771

Orbital period 2.82 d · percentile 14 / cohort 1533

Distance 939.74 pc · percentile 86 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.039 · percentile 2 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

2.817 days

Semi-major axis

0.0383 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.37 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.82 Earth days (0.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0383 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.681 %

Duration

2.505 h

Impact parameter b

0.007

Rp / R★

0.121703

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,003.9677

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 16,814 ppm lasting ≈ 2.51 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.121703

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

9.656

Impact parameter (b)

0.007

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,003.9677

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.04080

Eq. Temperature

1,219K

(946 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

528.22

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.039

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-670

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,709 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.79 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.990 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.990 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.440 dex

Stellar density

2.147 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

939.74 parsec

Light-years 3,065.03 ly

V-band magnitude

15.16 mag

Voyager-speed travel 54,051,826 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.036 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.550 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-2.46 mas/yr

PM Declination

-3.83 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.297 · y = -0.582 · z = 0.757

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.01546° · Dec 49.22530°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.636° · 11.722°

Ecliptic λ, β

321.899° · 67.855°

HTM-20 index

1889563020