Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-844 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-844, located approximately 1,408.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.68 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.46 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 2.613 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0298 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 713 K (440 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,408.26 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.409
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 24,834,722 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-844 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.68 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.150 R♃
Mass
3.46 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.01 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.409
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

#435of 1176

top 36.9%

This planet

1.68R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-844 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.46317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.011.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0089.650.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 298836607

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2131232114526859520

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2131232114526859520

System

Kepler-844

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.680 R⊕ · percentile 62 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.460 M⊕ · percentile 56 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.61 d · percentile 18 / cohort 1164
Distance 431.78 pc · percentile 42 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.409 · percentile 62 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.613 days
Semi-major axis
0.0298 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
80.29 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.61 Earth days (0.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0298 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.060 %

Duration

1.930 h

Impact parameter b

0.855

Rp / R★

0.027045

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.1123

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 600 ppm lasting ≈ 1.93 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.027045

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

5.280

Impact parameter (b)

0.855

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.1123

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.06900

Eq. Temperature

713K

(440 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

89.65

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.409

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-844

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,128 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.80 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.570 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.590 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.24

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.700 dex

Stellar density

0.585 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
431.78 parsec
Light-years 1,408.26 ly
V-band magnitude
15.99 mag
Voyager-speed travel 24,834,722 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.218.017.95B15.99V15.80Gaia15.84Kepler14.98TESS17.13Sloan g15.81Sloan r15.29Sloan i15.02Sloan z13.80J13.19H13.06K12.97W112.99W212.78W39.24W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.288 mas

Total Proper Motion

30.842 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

16.50 mas/yr

PM Declination

-26.06 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.202 · y = -0.627 · z = 0.752

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.85785° · Dec 48.77396°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.585° · 16.969°

Ecliptic λ, β

306.175° · 69.979°

HTM-20 index

770322703

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