Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 12.33 Earth radii
An orbital period of 6.492 days
Semi-major axis 0.0694 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,219 K (946 °C)
Distance from Earth 6,311.25 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.040
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 111,298,871 years

1 sibling around Kepler-730

Kepler-730 b shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet	Type	Radius (R⊕)	Mass (M⊕)	Period (d)	Eq. T (K)	Year
Kepler-730 c	Super-Earth	1.57	3.09	2.852	1,607	2018
Kepler-730 b this	Gas Giant	12.33	—	6.492	1,219	2016

Kepler-730 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

12.33 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.100 R♃

Mass

— M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

— M♃

Density

— g/cm³

Surface Gravity

— g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.040

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

#1341of 1771

top 75.7%

This planet

12.33R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

TYC 8998-760-1 c 12.33 R⊕ WASP-44 b 12.33 R⊕ WASP-41 b 12.33 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-730 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	12.33	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	418.80	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 352013543

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2106412082639238400

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2106412082639238400

System

Kepler-730

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.330 R⊕ · percentile 24 / cohort 1771

Orbital period 6.49 d · percentile 40 / cohort 1533

Distance 1,935.04 pc · percentile 90 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.040 · percentile 2 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

6.492 days

Semi-major axis

0.0694 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

86.96 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 6.49 Earth days (1.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0694 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.716 %

Duration

4.330 h

Impact parameter b

0.561

Rp / R★

0.080130

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,007.6336

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 7,163 ppm lasting ≈ 4.33 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.080130

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.561

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,007.6336

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.03590

Eq. Temperature

1,219K

(946 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

418.80

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.040

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-730

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,620 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

9.50 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.411 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.047 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.21

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.162 dex

Stellar density

0.529 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,935.04 parsec

Light-years 6,311.25 ly

V-band magnitude

15.78 mag

Voyager-speed travel 111,298,871 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.487 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.483 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-5.28 mas/yr

PM Declination

-1.49 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.188 · y = -0.674 · z = 0.714

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.55479° · Dec 45.57884°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.874° · 17.240°

Ecliptic λ, β

299.290° · 67.443°

HTM-20 index

-1220281494