Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-693 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-693, located approximately 3,755.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.18 Earth radii
  • A mass of 73.80 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.71 g
  • An orbital period of 15.376 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1121 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 600 K (327 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 3,755.72 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.223
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 66,232,100 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-693 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.18 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.908 R♃
Mass
73.80 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.232 M♃
Density
0.38 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.71 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.223
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

#1752of 1771

top 98.9%

This planet

10.18R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-693 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.1811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0073.80317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.381.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.712.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0031.640.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 237159318

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2103572731299093376

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2103572731299093376

System

Kepler-693

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.180 R⊕ · percentile 1 / cohort 1771
Mass 73.800 M⊕ · percentile 2 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 15.38 d · percentile 46 / cohort 1533
Distance 1,151.51 pc · percentile 88 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.223 · percentile 41 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
15.376 days
Semi-major axis
0.1121 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.73 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 15.38 Earth days (4.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1121 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.534 %

Duration

3.267 h

Impact parameter b

0.692

Rp / R★

0.128578

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,006.6133

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 15,337 ppm lasting ≈ 3.27 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.128578

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

31.240

Impact parameter (b)

0.692

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,006.6133

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.09740

Eq. Temperature

600K

(327 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

31.64

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.223

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.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Transit timing variations

Gravitational interactions from neighbours have been detected.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-693

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,881 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.47 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.720 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.760 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.10

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.610 dex

Stellar density

2.439 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
1,151.51 parsec
Light-years 3,755.72 ly
V-band magnitude
16.73 mag
Voyager-speed travel 66,232,100 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

8.619.519.54U17.74B16.73V16.41Gaia16.42Kepler15.76TESS17.24Sloan g16.35Sloan r16.04Sloan i15.86Sloan z14.88J14.36H14.18K14.19W114.27W212.69W38.64W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.841 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.342 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.52 mas/yr

PM Declination

-2.84 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.175 · y = -0.742 · z = 0.648

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 283.25353° · Dec 40.35822°

Galactic ℓ, b

70.148° · 16.895°

Ecliptic λ, β

292.440° · 62.769°

HTM-20 index

-184137793

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