Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Kepler-935 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-935, located approximately 1,538.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.35 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.39 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.31 g
  • An orbital period of 4.881 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0527 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 879 K (606 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,538.75 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.354
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 27,135,772 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-935 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.35 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.120 R♃
Mass
2.39 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
5.34 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.31 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.354
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

#996of 1176

top 84.6%

This planet

1.35R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-935 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.39317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.341.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.312.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0094.610.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271424795

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2080476321330727808

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2080476321330727808

System

Kepler-935

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.350 R⊕ · percentile 14 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.390 M⊕ · percentile 14 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 4.88 d · percentile 40 / cohort 1164
Distance 471.78 pc · percentile 45 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.354 · percentile 51 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.881 days
Semi-major axis
0.0527 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.10 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.88 Earth days (1.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0527 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.034 %

Duration

2.510 h

Impact parameter b

0.972

Rp / R★

0.016868

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,969.1978

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 343 ppm lasting ≈ 2.51 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016868

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

14.460

Impact parameter (b)

0.972

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,969.1978

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.11200

Eq. Temperature

879K

(606 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

94.61

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.354

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-935

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,830 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.80 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.730 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.780 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.610 dex

Stellar density

2.400 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
471.78 parsec
Light-years 1,538.75 ly
V-band magnitude
15.01 mag
Voyager-speed travel 27,135,772 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.715.815.54B15.01V14.90Gaia14.93Kepler14.24TESS15.80Sloan g14.86Sloan r14.55Sloan i14.39Sloan z13.29J12.77H12.62K12.62W112.71W212.96W39.68W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.091 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.270 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.84 mas/yr

PM Declination

2.09 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.291 · y = -0.622 · z = 0.727

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.02172° · Dec 46.61920°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.645° · 11.691°

Ecliptic λ, β

315.856° · 66.121°

HTM-20 index

-1126582041

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