Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

K2-102 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange K2-102, located approximately 613.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.30 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.24 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.33 g
  • An orbital period of 9.916 days
  • Distance from Earth 613.74 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.939
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 10,823,376 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

K2-102 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.30 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.116 R♃
Mass
2.24 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.60 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.33 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.939
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Transit
Facility K2
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1090of 1176

top 92.6%

This planet

1.30R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth K2-102 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.24317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.601.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.332.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 175262071

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 661310756111835392

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 661310756111835392

System

K2-102

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.300 R⊕ · percentile 7 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.240 M⊕ · percentile 7 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 9.92 d · percentile 64 / cohort 1164
Distance 188.18 pc · percentile 23 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.939 · percentile 100 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
9.916 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
0.100
Inclination
89.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 9.92 Earth days (2.7% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.020 %

Duration

2.660 h

Impact parameter b

0.430

Rp / R★

0.017000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,457,139.6552

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 200 ppm lasting ≈ 2.66 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

25.300

Impact parameter (b)

0.430

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,457,139.6552

Long. of periastron (ω)

-1.00°

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.939

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Mann et al. 2017

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2017-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: K2-102

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,695 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.79 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.710 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.770 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.14

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.534 dex

Stellar density

3.030 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

34.85 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.00 km/s

Rotation period

11.50 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
188.18 parsec
Light-years 613.74 ly
V-band magnitude
13.08 mag
Voyager-speed travel 10,823,376 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

8.516.416.41U14.50B13.08V12.85Gaia12.87Kepler12.19TESS15.57Sloan g15.33Sloan r15.74Sloan i13.01Sloan z11.28J10.74H10.64K10.58W110.66W210.54W38.51W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

5.286 mas

Total Proper Motion

37.384 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-34.96 mas/yr

PM Declination

-13.25 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.606 · y = 0.720 · z = 0.338

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 130.05590° · Dec 19.77875°

Galactic ℓ, b

205.778° · 32.484°

Ecliptic λ, β

127.279° · 1.373°

HTM-20 index

-1919859963

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