Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.76 Earth radii
A mass of 3.75 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.21 g
An orbital period of 32.297 days
Semi-major axis 0.1885 AU
Equilibrium temperature 503 K (230 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,709.42 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.560
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 47,780,567 years

Kepler-916 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.76 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.157 R♃

Mass

3.75 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.012 M♃

Density

3.78 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.560

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

#315of 1176

top 26.7%

This planet

1.76R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-755 b 1.76 R⊕ Kepler-888 b 1.76 R⊕ G 264-012 c 1.76 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-916 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.76	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.75	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	3.78	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.21	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	14.68	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159581842

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2127452543307810432

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2127452543307810432

System

Kepler-916

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.760 R⊕ · percentile 73 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.750 M⊕ · percentile 66 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 32.30 d · percentile 92 / cohort 1164

Distance 830.71 pc · percentile 70 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.560 · percentile 78 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

32.297 days

Semi-major axis

0.1885 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.78 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 32.30 Earth days (8.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1885 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.047 %

Duration

4.617 h

Impact parameter b

0.207

Rp / R★

0.019961

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,971.5208

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 472 ppm lasting ≈ 4.62 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019961

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

54.010

Impact parameter (b)

0.207

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,971.5208

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.22700

Eq. Temperature

503K

(230 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

14.68

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.560

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-916

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,248 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.79 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.810 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.850 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.560 dex

Stellar density

2.614 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

830.71 parsec

Light-years 2,709.42 ly

V-band magnitude

15.36 mag

Voyager-speed travel 47,780,567 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.175 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.826 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

3.97 mas/yr

PM Declination

8.99 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.249 · y = -0.649 · z = 0.719

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.98338° · Dec 45.97333°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.793° · 13.913°

Ecliptic λ, β

308.813° · 66.607°

HTM-20 index

1451016298