Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.48 Earth radii
A mass of 6.71 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.09 g
An orbital period of 7.411 days
Semi-major axis 0.0748 AU
Equilibrium temperature 905 K (632 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,554.68 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.279
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 62,686,715 years

Kepler-713 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.48 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.221 R♃

Mass

6.71 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.021 M♃

Density

2.42 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.09 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.279

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

#1212of 1978

top 61.2%

This planet

2.48R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

K2-15 b 2.48 R⊕ Kepler-256 d 2.48 R⊕ Kepler-266 b 2.48 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-713 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.48	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	6.71	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.42	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.09	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	228.28	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271762145

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2078003897636955008

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2078003897636955008

System

Kepler-713

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.480 R⊕ · percentile 38 / cohort 1978

Mass 6.710 M⊕ · percentile 36 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 7.41 d · percentile 24 / cohort 1946

Distance 1,089.87 pc · percentile 83 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.279 · percentile 23 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

7.411 days

Semi-major axis

0.0748 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

87.54 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 7.41 Earth days (2.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0748 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.062 %

Duration

2.485 h

Impact parameter b

0.006

Rp / R★

0.023196

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,008.3466

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 621 ppm lasting ≈ 2.49 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.023196

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

23.320

Impact parameter (b)

0.006

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,008.3466

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.06860

Eq. Temperature

905K

(632 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

228.28

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.279

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-713

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,785 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.80 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.990 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.980 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.440 dex

Stellar density

4.366 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,089.87 parsec

Light-years 3,554.68 ly

V-band magnitude

15.17 mag

Voyager-speed travel 62,686,715 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.890 mas

Total Proper Motion

17.440 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-15.52 mas/yr

PM Declination

-7.95 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.316 · y = -0.659 · z = 0.682

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.65138° · Dec 43.02978°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.627° · 9.620°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.523° · 62.646°

HTM-20 index

-1363686978