Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.25 Earth radii
A mass of 5.69 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.12 g
An orbital period of 15.774 days
Semi-major axis 0.1277 AU
Equilibrium temperature 955 K (682 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,614.07 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.273
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 46,099,154 years

Kepler-982 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.25 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.201 R♃

Mass

5.69 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.018 M♃

Density

2.74 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.12 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.273

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

#1589of 1978

top 80.3%

This planet

2.25R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-300 c 2.25 R⊕ GJ 667 C b 2.25 R⊕ Kepler-342 b 2.25 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-982 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.25	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	5.69	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.74	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.12	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	185.20	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158730203

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2130393938771375104

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2130393938771375104

System

Kepler-982

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.250 R⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1978

Mass 5.690 M⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 15.77 d · percentile 53 / cohort 1946

Distance 801.48 pc · percentile 65 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.273 · percentile 21 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

15.774 days

Semi-major axis

0.1277 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.92 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 15.77 Earth days (4.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1277 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.031 %

Duration

4.944 h

Impact parameter b

0.895

Rp / R★

0.016258

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,970.5309

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 313 ppm lasting ≈ 4.94 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.016258

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

24.769

Impact parameter (b)

0.895

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,970.5309

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.15900

Eq. Temperature

955K

(682 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

185.20

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.273

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-982

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,139 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.55 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.290 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.160 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.280 dex

Stellar density

0.380 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

801.48 parsec

Light-years 2,614.07 ly

V-band magnitude

13.10 mag

Voyager-speed travel 46,099,154 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.219 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.222 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.00 mas/yr

PM Declination

4.10 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.217 · y = -0.652 · z = 0.726

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 288.41768° · Dec 46.59045°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.634° · 15.784°

Ecliptic λ, β

305.069° · 67.800°

HTM-20 index

1721691470