Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-777 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-777, located approximately 1,445.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.47 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.76 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.28 g
  • An orbital period of 5.728 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0519 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 569 K (296 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,445.22 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.530
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 25,486,397 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-777 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.47 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.131 R♃
Mass
2.76 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.77 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.28 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.530
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

#802of 1176

top 68.1%

This planet

1.47R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-777 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.76317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.771.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.282.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0033.950.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 123497954

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2105358166383528192

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2105358166383528192

System

Kepler-777

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.470 R⊕ · percentile 31 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.760 M⊕ · percentile 29 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.73 d · percentile 45 / cohort 1164
Distance 443.11 pc · percentile 43 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.530 · percentile 75 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.728 days
Semi-major axis
0.0519 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.42 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.73 Earth days (1.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0519 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.064 %

Duration

1.980 h

Impact parameter b

0.056

Rp / R★

0.024205

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,968.1808

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 643 ppm lasting ≈ 1.98 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.024205

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

22.605

Impact parameter (b)

0.056

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,968.1808

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.11700

Eq. Temperature

569K

(296 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

33.95

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.530

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-777

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,043 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.16 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.560 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.580 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.17

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.710 dex

Stellar density

5.773 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
443.11 parsec
Light-years 1,445.22 ly
V-band magnitude
16.13 mag
Voyager-speed travel 25,486,397 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.417.817.82B16.13V15.94Gaia15.95Kepler15.10TESS17.26Sloan g15.97Sloan r15.39Sloan i15.04Sloan z13.88J13.21H13.05K13.03W113.06W213.13W39.37W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.229 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.295 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

7.83 mas/yr

PM Declination

8.14 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.158 · y = -0.698 · z = 0.699

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 282.72411° · Dec 44.34651°

Galactic ℓ, b

73.917° · 18.677°

Ecliptic λ, β

293.513° · 66.750°

HTM-20 index

-266444366

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