Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 14.20 Earth radii
A mass of 158.91 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.79 g
An orbital period of 1.702 days
Distance from Earth 1,483.85 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.254
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 26,167,635 years

KIC 5479689 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

14.20 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.270 R♃

Mass

158.91 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.500 M♃

Density

0.31 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.79 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.254

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021

Method Orbital Brightness Modulation

Facility Kepler

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#334of 1771

top 18.8%

This planet

14.20R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

OGLE-2011-BLG-0251L b 14.20 R⊕ HIP 57274 c 14.20 R⊕ HD 187123 b 14.20 R⊕

Metric	Earth	KIC 5479689 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	14.20	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	158.91	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	0.31	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.79	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i)	158.914 M⊕	Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 171975725

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2075056519291867648

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2075056519291867648

System

KIC 5479689

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.200 R⊕ · percentile 79 / cohort 1771

Mass 158.914 M⊕ · percentile 13 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 1.70 d · percentile 4 / cohort 1533

Distance 454.95 pc · percentile 73 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.254 · percentile 46 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

1.702 days

Semi-major axis

— AU

Eccentricity

—

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.70 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year).

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.254

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Detection Signatures

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Orbital-brightness modulation

Host star brightness varies with the planet's orbit.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Lillo Box et al. 2021

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2021-10

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2021 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1816 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1705 c · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1948 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-196 d · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1853 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1840 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1881 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1858 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1874 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1802 c · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1749 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1849 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: KIC 5479689

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,459 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

—

Stellar Radius

0.894 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.966 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.520 dex

Stellar density

1.635 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

454.95 parsec

Light-years 1,483.85 ly

V-band magnitude

13.93 mag

Voyager-speed travel 26,167,635 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.169 mas

Total Proper Motion

23.960 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-13.41 mas/yr

PM Declination

-19.86 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.372 · y = -0.662 · z = 0.651

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 299.32550° · Dec 40.63812°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.894° · 6.059°

Ecliptic λ, β

316.884° · 59.396°

HTM-20 index

-677340944