Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2013

KOI-351 b

A super-earth orbiting the f-type yellow-white KOI-351, located approximately 2,766.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.31 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.27 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.32 g
  • An orbital period of 7.008 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0740 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,062 K (789 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,766.63 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.291
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 48,789,541 years

7 siblings around KOI-351

KOI-351 b shares its host star with 7 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
KOI-351 b this Super-Earth 1.31 2.27 7.008 1,062 2013
KOI-351 c Rocky Terrestrial 1.19 1.81 8.719 987 2013
Kepler-90 i Super-Earth 1.32 2.30 14.449 709 2017
KOI-351 d Sub-Neptune 2.87 8.60 59.737 520 2013
KOI-351 e Sub-Neptune 2.66 7.56 91.939 450 2013
KOI-351 f Sub-Neptune 2.88 8.65 124.914 407 2013
KOI-351 g Neptune-like 7.72 15.00 210.735 342 2013
KOI-351 h Gas Giant 11.25 203.00 331.603 294 2013

KOI-351 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.31 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.117 R♃
Mass
2.27 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.55 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.32 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.291
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2013
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1072of 1176

top 91.1%

This planet

1.31R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth KOI-351 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.27317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.551.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.322.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00316.440.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 267667295

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2132193431285570304

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2132193431285570304

System

KOI-351

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.310 R⊕ · percentile 8 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.270 M⊕ · percentile 8 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 7.01 d · percentile 52 / cohort 1164
Distance 848.25 pc · percentile 71 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.291 · percentile 34 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
7.008 days
Semi-major axis
0.0740 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.40 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 7.01 Earth days (1.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0740 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.012 %

Duration

3.990 h

Impact parameter b

0.130

Rp / R★

0.010000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,970.6906

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 116 ppm lasting ≈ 3.99 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.010000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

13.200

Impact parameter (b)

0.130

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,970.6906

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.08720

Eq. Temperature

1,062K

(789 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

316.44

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.291

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Cabrera et al. 2014

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2014-01

Observation locale

Space

Host System: KOI-351

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,080 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.53 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.200 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.200 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.12

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.400 dex

Stellar density

1.189 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

4.60 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
848.25 parsec
Light-years 2,766.63 ly
V-band magnitude
13.88 mag
Voyager-speed travel 48,789,541 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.614.614.60B13.88V13.74Gaia13.80Kepler13.34TESS14.14Sloan g13.74Sloan r13.66Sloan i13.63Sloan z12.79J12.53H12.48K12.44W112.48W212.51W39.59W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.150 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.432 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.38 mas/yr

PM Declination

-3.21 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.163 · y = -0.631 · z = 0.758

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 284.43346° · Dec 49.30512°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.269° · 19.256°

Ecliptic λ, β

300.329° · 71.228°

HTM-20 index

-419849693

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