Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.67 Earth radii
A mass of 7.61 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.07 g
An orbital period of 11.551 days
Semi-major axis 0.0999 AU
Equilibrium temperature 845 K (572 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,135.89 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.292
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 55,301,339 years

Kepler-980 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.67 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.238 R♃

Mass

7.61 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.024 M♃

Density

2.20 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.07 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.292

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

#904of 1978

top 45.7%

This planet

2.67R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-357 c 2.67 R⊕ Kepler-96 b 2.67 R⊕ K2-26 b 2.67 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-980 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.67	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	7.61	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.20	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.07	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	170.14	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271162671

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2079902101382181248

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2079902101382181248

System

Kepler-980

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.670 R⊕ · percentile 53 / cohort 1978

Mass 7.610 M⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 11.55 d · percentile 40 / cohort 1946

Distance 961.47 pc · percentile 76 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.292 · percentile 26 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

11.551 days

Semi-major axis

0.0999 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

88.79 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 11.55 Earth days (3.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0999 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.040 %

Duration

3.714 h

Impact parameter b

0.914

Rp / R★

0.022531

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,967.9086

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 403 ppm lasting ≈ 3.71 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.022531

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

11.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.914

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,967.9086

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10400

Eq. Temperature

845K

(572 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

170.14

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.292

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-980

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,935 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.55 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.060 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.050 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.410 dex

Stellar density

0.510 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

961.47 parsec

Light-years 3,135.89 ly

V-band magnitude

14.22 mag

Voyager-speed travel 55,301,339 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.011 mas

Total Proper Motion

2.879 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-2.84 mas/yr

PM Declination

0.48 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.294 · y = -0.642 · z = 0.708

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 294.61299° · Dec 45.06017°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.099° · 11.228°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.717° · 64.808°

HTM-20 index

-1689679339