Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 12.40 Earth radii
A mass of 3,750.39 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 24.39 g
An orbital period of 840.000 days
Distance from Earth 4,510.38 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.361
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 79,540,524 years

KIC 7917485 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

12.40 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.100 R♃

Mass

3,750.39 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

11.800 M♃

Density

10.80 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

24.39 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.361

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016

Method Pulsation Timing Variations

Facility Kepler

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1298of 1771

top 73.2%

This planet

12.40R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HD 110014 b 12.40 R⊕ CFBDSIR J145829+101343 b 12.40 R⊕ MOA-2010-BLG-073L b 12.40 R⊕

Metric	Earth	KIC 7917485 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	12.40	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3,750.39	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	10.80	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	24.39	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i)	3,750.394 M⊕	Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 268924604

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2075978592919858432

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2075978592919858432

System

KIC 7917485

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.400 R⊕ · percentile 25 / cohort 1771

Mass 3,750.394 M⊕ · percentile 90 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 840.00 d · percentile 74 / cohort 1533

Distance 1,382.89 pc · percentile 89 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.361 · percentile 74 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

840.000 days

Semi-major axis

— AU

Eccentricity

0.150

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 2.30 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.361

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Murphy et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-08

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: KIC 7917485

Spectral Class

A-type white

Effective Temperature

7,067 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

—

Stellar Radius

2.010 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.630 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.000 dex

Stellar density

0.232 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

120.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,382.89 parsec

Light-years 4,510.38 ly

V-band magnitude

13.17 mag

Voyager-speed travel 79,540,524 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.695 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.516 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

2.41 mas/yr

PM Declination

-6.06 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.356 · y = -0.630 · z = 0.690

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 299.43461° · Dec 43.63261°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.527° · 7.521°

Ecliptic λ, β

319.489° · 62.108°

HTM-20 index

1866502090

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