Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.97 Earth radii
A mass of 4.54 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.17 g
An orbital period of 12.057 days
Semi-major axis 0.0987 AU
Equilibrium temperature 689 K (416 °C)
Distance from Earth 1,342.09 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.401
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 23,667,690 years

Kepler-962 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.97 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.176 R♃

Mass

4.54 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.014 M♃

Density

3.26 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.17 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.401

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

#38of 1176

top 3.1%

This planet

1.97R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-224 e 1.97 R⊕ Kepler-184 c 1.97 R⊕ Kepler-347 b 1.97 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-962 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.97	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	4.54	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	3.26	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.17	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	53.82	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271546798

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2080453025427246848

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2080453025427246848

System

Kepler-962

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.970 R⊕ · percentile 96 / cohort 1176

Mass 4.540 M⊕ · percentile 88 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 12.06 d · percentile 70 / cohort 1164

Distance 411.49 pc · percentile 40 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.401 · percentile 60 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

12.057 days

Semi-major axis

0.0987 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.07 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 12.06 Earth days (3.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0987 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.052 %

Duration

2.260 h

Impact parameter b

0.306

Rp / R★

0.020920

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,968.4147

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 520 ppm lasting ≈ 2.26 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.020920

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

39.710

Impact parameter (b)

0.306

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,968.4147

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.24000

Eq. Temperature

689K

(416 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

53.82

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.401

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-962

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,478 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.40 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.860 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.930 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.540 dex

Stellar density

1.640 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

411.49 parsec

Light-years 1,342.09 ly

V-band magnitude

13.68 mag

Voyager-speed travel 23,667,690 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.401 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.611 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

6.42 mas/yr

PM Declination

1.57 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.296 · y = -0.625 · z = 0.722

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.31319° · Dec 46.23750°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.394° · 11.336°

Ecliptic λ, β

315.916° · 65.690°

HTM-20 index

-1971928520