Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2017

Kepler-1651 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1651, located approximately 216.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.84 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.04 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.19 g
  • An orbital period of 9.879 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0692 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 393 K (120 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 216.59 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.680
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,819,595 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1651 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.84 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.164 R♃
Mass
4.04 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.56 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.19 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.680
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

#201of 1176

top 17.0%

This planet

1.84R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1651 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.04317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.561.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.192.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.005.650.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 48353358

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2131725447350716032

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2131725447350716032

System

Kepler-1651

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.840 R⊕ · percentile 82 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.040 M⊕ · percentile 75 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 9.88 d · percentile 64 / cohort 1164
Distance 66.41 pc · percentile 13 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.680 · percentile 84 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
9.879 days
Semi-major axis
0.0692 AU
Eccentricity
0.130
Inclination
89.97 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 9.88 Earth days (2.7% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.0692 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.147 %

Duration

1.892 h

Impact parameter b

0.450

Rp / R★

0.033550

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,961.5340

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,473 ppm lasting ≈ 1.89 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.033550

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

41.282

Impact parameter (b)

0.450

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,961.5340

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.04000

Eq. Temperature

393K

(120 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

5.65

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.680

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-1651

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,713 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.503 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.522 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.843 dex

Stellar density

4.100 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

4.06 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.10 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
66.41 parsec
Light-years 216.59 ly
V-band magnitude
13.86 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,819,595 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

8.815.715.67B13.86V13.07Gaia13.50Kepler12.10TESS14.41Sloan g13.46Sloan r13.11Sloan i10.65J9.98H9.80K9.44W19.35W29.33W38.77W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

15.030 mas

Total Proper Motion

49.862 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-10.82 mas/yr

PM Declination

-48.67 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.156 · y = -0.645 · z = 0.748

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 283.62826° · Dec 48.39081°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.169° · 19.451°

Ecliptic λ, β

297.963° · 70.510°

HTM-20 index

1415838772

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