Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.30 Earth radii
A mass of 2.24 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.33 g
An orbital period of 6.401 days
Semi-major axis 0.0732 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,109 K (836 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,666.60 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.277
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 47,025,476 years

Kepler-796 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.30 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.116 R♃

Mass

2.24 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.007 M♃

Density

5.60 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.33 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.277

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

#1090of 1176

top 92.6%

This planet

1.30R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-1568 b 1.30 R⊕ TOI-206 b 1.30 R⊕ Kepler-1254 c 1.30 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-796 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.30	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	2.24	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	5.60	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.33	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	962.26	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 121214909

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2099651529238509696

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2099651529238509696

System

Kepler-796

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.300 R⊕ · percentile 7 / cohort 1176

Mass 2.240 M⊕ · percentile 7 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 6.40 d · percentile 49 / cohort 1164

Distance 817.58 pc · percentile 69 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.277 · percentile 31 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

6.401 days

Semi-major axis

0.0732 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

85.17 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 6.40 Earth days (1.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0732 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.014 %

Duration

2.504 h

Impact parameter b

0.016

Rp / R★

0.010628

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,969.8811

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 141 ppm lasting ≈ 2.50 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.010628

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

19.743

Impact parameter (b)

0.016

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,969.8811

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.08950

Eq. Temperature

1,109K

(836 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

962.26

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.277

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-796

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,475 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

11.75 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.090 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.930 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.09

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.330 dex

Stellar density

0.100 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-32.69 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

817.58 parsec

Light-years 2,666.60 ly

V-band magnitude

13.18 mag

Voyager-speed travel 47,025,476 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.194 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.461 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

8.77 mas/yr

PM Declination

-3.54 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.231 · y = -0.740 · z = 0.631

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.30790° · Dec 39.14471°

Galactic ℓ, b

70.243° · 13.551°

Ecliptic λ, β

298.312° · 60.894°

HTM-20 index

-547143418