Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-905 b

A super-earth orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Kepler-905, located approximately 1,726.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.41 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.57 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 5.083 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0569 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 928 K (655 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,726.24 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.330
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 30,442,229 years

Kepler-905 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.41 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.126 R♃
Mass
2.57 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
5.04 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.330
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

#902of 1176

top 76.6%

This planet

1.41R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-905 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.57317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.041.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00185.770.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159225367

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2127811705651952000

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2127811705651952000

System

Kepler-905

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.410 R⊕ · percentile 22 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.570 M⊕ · percentile 21 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.08 d · percentile 41 / cohort 1164
Distance 529.27 pc · percentile 49 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.330 · percentile 45 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.083 days
Semi-major axis
0.0569 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.84 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.08 Earth days (1.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0569 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.028 %

Duration

1.735 h

Impact parameter b

0.063

Rp / R★

0.015212

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.2110

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 277 ppm lasting ≈ 1.74 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.015212

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

22.716

Impact parameter (b)

0.063

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.2110

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10700

Eq. Temperature

928K

(655 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

185.77

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.330

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

Host System: Kepler-905

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,461 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.66 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.860 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.950 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.09

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.550 dex

Stellar density

1.440 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
529.27 parsec
Light-years 1,726.24 ly
V-band magnitude
14.06 mag
Voyager-speed travel 30,442,229 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.215.315.30B14.06V13.95Gaia13.98Kepler13.44TESS14.53Sloan g13.92Sloan r13.75Sloan i13.68Sloan z12.70J12.37H12.26K12.22W112.26W212.50W39.24W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.861 mas

Total Proper Motion

8.775 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

5.86 mas/yr

PM Declination

6.53 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.235 · y = -0.644 · z = 0.728

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.05115° · Dec 46.71341°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.214° · 14.805°

Ecliptic λ, β

307.950° · 67.528°

HTM-20 index

1752559827

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