Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2017

Kepler-1650 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the m-type red dwarf Kepler-1650, located approximately 438.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.96 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.84 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.91 g
  • An orbital period of 1.538 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0167 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 602 K (329 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 438.34 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.536
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 7,730,194 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1650 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.96 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.086 R♃
Mass
0.84 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.003 M♃
Density
5.22 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.91 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.536
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2017
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#366of 570

top 64.0%

This planet

0.96R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1650 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.9611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.84317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.221.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.912.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0054.560.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 273502299

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2078524482038704000

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2078524482038704000

System

Kepler-1650

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.960 R⊕ · percentile 35 / cohort 570
Mass 0.840 M⊕ · percentile 31 / cohort 570
Orbital period 1.54 d · percentile 17 / cohort 567
Distance 134.40 pc · percentile 26 / cohort 566
ESI 0.536 · percentile 73 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.538 days
Semi-major axis
0.0167 AU
Eccentricity
0.010
Inclination
77.38 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.54 Earth days (0.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0167 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.084 %

Duration

1.103 h

Impact parameter b

0.310

Rp / R★

0.026250

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,001.7396

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 841 ppm lasting ≈ 1.10 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.026250

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.840

Impact parameter (b)

0.310

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,001.7396

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.12400

Eq. Temperature

602K

(329 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

54.56

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.536

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Mann et al. 2017

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2017-06

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1650

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,410 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.82 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.334 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.326 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.11

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.859 dex

Stellar density

8.730 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
134.40 parsec
Light-years 438.34 ly
V-band magnitude
17.07 mag
Voyager-speed travel 7,730,194 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.718.818.85B17.07V15.74Gaia15.72Kepler14.52TESS17.55Sloan g16.16Sloan r14.94Sloan i14.34Sloan z12.99J12.44H12.20K12.04W111.91W211.39W38.73W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

7.412 mas

Total Proper Motion

51.289 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.68 mas/yr

PM Declination

-51.26 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.341 · y = -0.649 · z = 0.680

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.72923° · Dec 42.86669°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.229° · 8.210°

Ecliptic λ, β

316.408° · 61.912°

HTM-20 index

1468293715

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