Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-785 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-785, located approximately 2,094.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.02 Earth radii
  • An orbital period of 1.974 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0250 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 753 K (480 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,094.09 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.110
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 36,929,237 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-785 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.02 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.162 R♃
Mass
M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
M♃
Density
g/cm³
Surface Gravity
g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.110
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

#958of 1771

top 54.0%

This planet

13.02R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-785 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.0211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.002.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00163.860.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137402055

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2052722689341030656

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2052722689341030656

System

Kepler-785

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.020 R⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1771
Orbital period 1.97 d · percentile 6 / cohort 1533
Distance 642.05 pc · percentile 80 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.110 · percentile 29 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.974 days
Semi-major axis
0.0250 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
87.90 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.97 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0250 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

3.022 %

Duration

1.829 h

Impact parameter b

0.286

Rp / R★

0.167411

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,011.6894

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 30,222 ppm lasting ≈ 1.83 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.167411

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

9.357

Impact parameter (b)

0.286

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,011.6894

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.03890

Eq. Temperature

753K

(480 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

163.86

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.110

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-785

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,739 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.82 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.710 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.770 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.620 dex

Stellar density

3.979 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
642.05 parsec
Light-years 2,094.09 ly
V-band magnitude
16.32 mag
Voyager-speed travel 36,929,237 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.117.417.42B16.32V15.76Gaia15.72Kepler15.05TESS16.66Sloan g15.66Sloan r15.31Sloan i15.13Sloan z14.08J13.55H13.38K13.21W113.28W212.73W39.10W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.530 mas

Total Proper Motion

14.472 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.83 mas/yr

PM Declination

-14.36 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.293 · y = -0.722 · z = 0.627

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.06831° · Dec 38.84220°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.589° · 10.082°

Ecliptic λ, β

305.331° · 59.604°

HTM-20 index

2070241971

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