Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-753 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-753, located approximately 896.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.91 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.31 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.18 g
  • An orbital period of 5.748 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0540 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 641 K (368 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 896.17 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.435
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 15,803,940 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-753 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.91 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.170 R♃
Mass
4.31 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.014 M♃
Density
3.40 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.18 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.435
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

#114of 1176

top 9.6%

This planet

1.91R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-753 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.31317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.401.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.182.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0041.670.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 351056774

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2051905030647886976

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2051905030647886976

System

Kepler-753

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.910 R⊕ · percentile 90 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.310 M⊕ · percentile 83 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.75 d · percentile 45 / cohort 1164
Distance 274.77 pc · percentile 30 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.435 · percentile 66 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.748 days
Semi-major axis
0.0540 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.33 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.75 Earth days (1.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0540 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.082 %

Duration

1.822 h

Impact parameter b

0.572

Rp / R★

0.026697

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.2982

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 820 ppm lasting ≈ 1.82 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.026697

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

12.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.572

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.2982

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.19700

Eq. Temperature

641K

(368 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

41.67

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.435

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.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-753

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,346 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.63 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.650 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.680 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.650 dex

Stellar density

4.418 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
274.77 parsec
Light-years 896.17 ly
V-band magnitude
14.89 mag
Voyager-speed travel 15,803,940 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

9.318.218.24U17.22B14.89V14.47Gaia14.50Kepler13.71TESS15.64Sloan g14.43Sloan r13.99Sloan i13.72Sloan z12.61J11.97H11.88K11.57W111.68W211.68W39.27W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.611 mas

Total Proper Motion

19.194 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-6.99 mas/yr

PM Declination

17.88 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.294 · y = -0.732 · z = 0.614

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.90324° · Dec 37.90237°

Galactic ℓ, b

70.679° · 9.772°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.556° · 58.742°

HTM-20 index

1972144796

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