Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

K2-383 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange K2-383, located approximately 664.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.56 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.07 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 1.866 days
  • Distance from Earth 664.67 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.877
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 11,721,398 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

K2-383 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.56 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.140 R♃
Mass
3.07 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.41 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.877
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Transit
Facility K2
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#634of 1176

top 53.8%

This planet

1.56R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth K2-383 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.07317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.411.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 31244979

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4098446119569242752

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4098446119569242752

System

K2-383

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.564 R⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.070 M⊕ · percentile 42 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.87 d · percentile 11 / cohort 1164
Distance 203.79 pc · percentile 25 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.877 · percentile 96 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.866 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
85.26 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.87 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year).

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.038 %

Duration

1.963 h

Impact parameter b

0.268

Rp / R★

0.017800

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,457,302.0928

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 383 ppm lasting ≈ 1.96 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017800

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

7.770

Impact parameter (b)

0.268

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,457,302.0928

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.877

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Christiansen et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-03

Observation locale

Space

Host System: K2-383

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,129 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.804 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.061 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.19

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.655 dex

Stellar density

1.883 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
203.79 parsec
Light-years 664.67 ly
V-band magnitude
12.69 mag
Voyager-speed travel 11,721,398 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

8.813.613.63B12.69V12.44Gaia12.41Kepler11.84TESS10.99J10.60H10.46K10.29W110.42W210.39W38.76W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.879 mas

Total Proper Motion

64.950 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

12.67 mas/yr

PM Declination

-63.70 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.197 · y = -0.928 · z = -0.315

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 282.00877° · Dec -18.37958°

Galactic ℓ, b

16.101° · -7.541°

Ecliptic λ, β

281.421° · 4.585°

HTM-20 index

1097185245

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