Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-707 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-707, located approximately 1,930.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.33 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.33 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.32 g
  • An orbital period of 2.237 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0325 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,160 K (887 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,930.11 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.263
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 34,037,540 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-707 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.33 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.119 R♃
Mass
2.33 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.44 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.32 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.263
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

#1022of 1176

top 86.8%

This planet

1.33R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-707 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.33317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.441.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.322.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00336.670.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159217349

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2101898205154183296

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2101898205154183296

System

Kepler-707

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.330 R⊕ · percentile 11 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.330 M⊕ · percentile 11 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.24 d · percentile 13 / cohort 1164
Distance 591.78 pc · percentile 53 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.263 · percentile 27 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.237 days
Semi-major axis
0.0325 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.23 °

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 0.0325 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.033 %

Duration

1.824 h

Impact parameter b

0.961

Rp / R★

0.016348

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,003.8175

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 331 ppm lasting ≈ 1.82 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016348

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

9.527

Impact parameter (b)

0.961

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,003.8175

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.05490

Eq. Temperature

1,160K

(887 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

336.67

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.263

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. 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-707

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,099 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.760 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.800 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.12

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.580 dex

Stellar density

3.233 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
591.78 parsec
Light-years 1,930.11 ly
V-band magnitude
15.02 mag
Voyager-speed travel 34,037,540 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.815.83B15.02V15.00Gaia15.00Kepler14.42TESS15.67Sloan g14.94Sloan r14.71Sloan i14.60Sloan z13.60J13.11H13.00K13.05W113.10W212.68W39.43W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.661 mas

Total Proper Motion

2.004 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-2.00 mas/yr

PM Declination

0.09 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.254 · y = -0.697 · z = 0.671

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.00756° · Dec 42.11647°

Galactic ℓ, b

73.894° · 12.924°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.247° · 63.196°

HTM-20 index

453924847

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