Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-674 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-674, located approximately 1,116.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.69 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.50 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 2.243 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0280 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 822 K (549 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,116.28 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.354
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 19,685,631 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-674 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.69 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.151 R♃
Mass
3.50 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
3.98 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.354
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

#415of 1176

top 35.2%

This planet

1.69R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-674 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.50317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.981.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00146.510.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 48528770

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2132161785967577728

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2132161785967577728

System

Kepler-674

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.690 R⊕ · percentile 64 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.500 M⊕ · percentile 58 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.24 d · percentile 14 / cohort 1164
Distance 342.25 pc · percentile 36 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.354 · percentile 51 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.243 days
Semi-major axis
0.0280 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
82.88 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.24 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0280 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.082 %

Duration

1.021 h

Impact parameter b

0.141

Rp / R★

0.026768

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,003.6789

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 822 ppm lasting ≈ 1.02 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.026768

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

17.090

Impact parameter (b)

0.141

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,003.6789

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.08180

Eq. Temperature

822K

(549 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

146.51

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.354

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-674

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,192 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.31 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.570 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.600 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.27

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.690 dex

Stellar density

18.768 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
342.25 parsec
Light-years 1,116.28 ly
V-band magnitude
15.57 mag
Voyager-speed travel 19,685,631 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.117.417.35B15.57V15.13Gaia15.14Kepler14.33TESS16.37Sloan g15.11Sloan r14.61Sloan i14.32Sloan z13.21J12.52H12.39K12.35W112.39W212.31W39.09W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.893 mas

Total Proper Motion

23.241 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-2.57 mas/yr

PM Declination

-23.10 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.168 · y = -0.618 · z = 0.768

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.17619° · Dec 50.14969°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.283° · 19.088°

Ecliptic λ, β

302.624° · 71.873°

HTM-20 index

-495910531

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