Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.78 Earth radii
A mass of 3.82 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.21 g
An orbital period of 12.985 days
Semi-major axis 0.1029 AU
Equilibrium temperature 818 K (545 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,046.48 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.349
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 36,089,710 years

Kepler-883 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.78 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.159 R♃

Mass

3.82 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.012 M♃

Density

3.72 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.349

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

#282of 1176

top 23.9%

This planet

1.78R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-1544 b 1.78 R⊕ Kepler-881 b 1.78 R⊕ GJ 676 A d 1.78 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-883 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.78	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.82	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	3.72	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.21	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	163.05	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 243271051

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2133609705341815680

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2133609705341815680

System

Kepler-883

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.780 R⊕ · percentile 75 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.820 M⊕ · percentile 69 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 12.98 d · percentile 72 / cohort 1164

Distance 627.46 pc · percentile 57 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.349 · percentile 50 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

12.985 days

Semi-major axis

0.1029 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.91 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 12.98 Earth days (3.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1029 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.026 %

Duration

3.457 h

Impact parameter b

0.046

Rp / R★

0.014786

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,972.7818

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 257 ppm lasting ≈ 3.46 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.014786

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

29.150

Impact parameter (b)

0.046

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,972.7818

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.16400

Eq. Temperature

818K

(545 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

163.05

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.349

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

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-883

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,116 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.02 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.090 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.060 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.13

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.400 dex

Stellar density

0.440 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

627.46 parsec

Light-years 2,046.48 ly

V-band magnitude

13.17 mag

Voyager-speed travel 36,089,710 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.565 mas

Total Proper Motion

22.297 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

9.32 mas/yr

PM Declination

-20.26 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.181 · y = -0.613 · z = 0.769

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.43373° · Dec 50.30023°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.725° · 18.385°

Ecliptic λ, β

305.208° · 71.735°

HTM-20 index

481545317