Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.20 Earth radii
A mass of 1.87 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.30 g
An orbital period of 15.866 days
Semi-major axis 0.1225 AU
Equilibrium temperature 879 K (606 °C)
Distance from Earth 1,148.07 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.357
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 20,246,198 years

Kepler-907 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.20 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.107 R♃

Mass

1.87 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.006 M♃

Density

5.95 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.30 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.357

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

#75of 570

top 13.0%

This planet

1.20R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-225 b 1.20 R⊕ Kepler-282 c 1.20 R⊕ Kepler-367 c 1.20 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-907 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.20	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	1.87	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	5.95	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.30	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	137.66	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 120576846

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2103882548762598144

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2103882548762598144

System

Kepler-907

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 1.200 R⊕ · percentile 84 / cohort 570

Mass 1.870 M⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 570

Orbital period 15.87 d · percentile 89 / cohort 567

Distance 352.00 pc · percentile 48 / cohort 566

ESI 0.357 · percentile 52 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

15.866 days

Semi-major axis

0.1225 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

86.77 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 15.87 Earth days (4.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1225 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.008 %

Duration

4.150 h

Impact parameter b

0.872

Rp / R★

0.008160

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,974.0881

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 77 ppm lasting ≈ 4.15 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.008160

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

29.390

Impact parameter (b)

0.872

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,974.0881

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.34800

Eq. Temperature

879K

(606 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

137.66

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.357

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-907

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,106 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.37 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.380 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.080 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.15

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.190 dex

Stellar density

1.908 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

12.25 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

352.00 parsec

Light-years 1,148.07 ly

V-band magnitude

11.16 mag

Voyager-speed travel 20,246,198 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 14 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.598 mas

Total Proper Motion

28.335 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-18.80 mas/yr

PM Declination

-21.20 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.199 · y = -0.720 · z = 0.664

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.47650° · Dec 41.63266°

Galactic ℓ, b

72.034° · 15.817°

Ecliptic λ, β

296.692° · 63.645°

HTM-20 index

2122066322