Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 16.56 Earth radii
An orbital period of 2.052 days
Semi-major axis 0.0322 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,497 K (1224 °C)
Distance from Earth 4,247.63 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.023
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 74,906,906 years

Kepler-718 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

16.56 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.477 R♃

Mass

— M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

— M♃

Density

— g/cm³

Surface Gravity

— g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.023

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

#131of 1771

top 7.3%

This planet

16.56R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HAT-P-6 b 16.59 R⊕ NGTS-3 A b 16.59 R⊕ TOI-5322 b 16.61 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-718 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	16.56	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	1,324.20	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 268924036

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2075964612812129792

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2075964612812129792

System

Kepler-718

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 16.560 R⊕ · percentile 93 / cohort 1771

Orbital period 2.05 d · percentile 7 / cohort 1533

Distance 1,302.33 pc · percentile 89 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.023 · percentile 0 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

2.052 days

Semi-major axis

0.0322 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

86.76 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.05 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0322 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.428 %

Duration

2.080 h

Impact parameter b

0.437

Rp / R★

0.116589

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,002.8906

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 14,281 ppm lasting ≈ 2.08 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.116589

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

7.875

Impact parameter (b)

0.437

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,002.8906

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.02470

Eq. Temperature

1,497K

(1224 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,324.20

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.023

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-718

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,191 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.57 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.300 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.180 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.280 dex

Stellar density

2.085 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,302.33 parsec

Light-years 4,247.63 ly

V-band magnitude

15.40 mag

Voyager-speed travel 74,906,906 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.740 mas

Total Proper Motion

10.629 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.42 mas/yr

PM Declination

-9.67 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.358 · y = -0.631 · z = 0.688

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 299.56187° · Dec 43.50352°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.463° · 7.375°

Ecliptic λ, β

319.553° · 61.952°

HTM-20 index

1868632039