Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.88 Earth radii
A mass of 8.65 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.04 g
An orbital period of 124.914 days
Semi-major axis 0.4800 AU
Equilibrium temperature 407 K (134 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,766.63 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.560
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 48,789,541 years

Context from the literature

Kepler-90f is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-90, located in the constellation Draco. It was discovered by the Kepler telescope in October 2013. It orbits its parent star at only 0.48 astronomical units away, and at its distance it completes an orbit once every 124.91 days.

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7 siblings around KOI-351

KOI-351 f 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	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 this	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 f Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.88 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.257 R♃

Mass

8.65 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.027 M♃

Density

1.99 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.04 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.560

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

#653of 1978

top 33.0%

This planet

2.88R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

K2-378 b 2.88 R⊕ Kepler-391 c 2.88 R⊕ Kepler-178 c 2.88 R⊕

Metric	Earth	KOI-351 f	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.88	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	8.65	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.99	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.04	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	6.80	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 267667295

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2132193431285570304

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2132193431285570304

System

KOI-351

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.880 R⊕ · percentile 67 / cohort 1978

Mass 8.650 M⊕ · percentile 61 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 124.91 d · percentile 96 / cohort 1946

Distance 848.25 pc · percentile 69 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.560 · percentile 78 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

124.914 days

Semi-major axis

0.4800 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.77 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 124.91 Earth days (34.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.4800 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.050 %

Duration

10.940 h

Impact parameter b

0.350

Rp / R★

0.022000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,087.7040

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 499 ppm lasting ≈ 10.94 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.022000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

86.400

Impact parameter (b)

0.350

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,087.7040

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.56600

Eq. Temperature

407K

(134 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

6.80

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.560

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

Cabrera et al. 2014

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2014-01

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2013 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-69 c · Super-Earth Kepler-61 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-62 e · Super-Earth Kepler-62 f · Super-Earth KOI-351 e · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1704 b · Gas Giant Kepler-37 d · Sub-Neptune Kepler-282 e · Sub-Neptune KOI-351 h · Gas Giant KOI-351 d · Sub-Neptune Kepler-114 c · Super-Earth Kepler-396 b · Sub-Neptune

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

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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