Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2017 Habitable Zone

Kepler-1652 b

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf Kepler-1652, located approximately 821.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.60 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.19 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.25 g
  • An orbital period of 38.097 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1654 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 268 K (-5 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 821.91 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.855
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 14,494,437 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Context from the literature

Kepler-1652b is a super-Earth exoplanet, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf Kepler-1652 about 822 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation. Discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, Kepler-1652b was first announced as a candidate in 2013, but wasn't validated until four years later in 2017. It is a potential super-Earth with 160% Earth's radius. The planet orbits well within the habitable zone of its system, the region where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface. The planet is an eyeball planet candidate.

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Kepler-1652 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.60 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.143 R♃
Mass
3.19 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.28 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.25 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.855
HZ Position Habitable
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2017
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#570of 1176

top 48.4%

This planet

1.60R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1652 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.19317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.281.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.252.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.810.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 27187450

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2135055391335687680

System

Kepler-1652

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.600 R⊕ · percentile 50 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.190 M⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 38.10 d · percentile 94 / cohort 1164
Distance 252.00 pc · percentile 27 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.855 · percentile 94 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
38.097 days
Semi-major axis
0.1654 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.99 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 38.10 Earth days (10.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1654 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.098 %

Duration

3.240 h

Impact parameter b

0.011

Rp / R★

0.038700

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,973.0045

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 977 ppm lasting ≈ 3.24 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.038700

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

91.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.011

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,973.0045

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.65600

Eq. Temperature

268K

(-5 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

0.81

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.855

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Within the conservative habitable zone — surface water would be frozen. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Torres et al. 2017

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2017-12

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1652

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,638 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.20 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.382 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.404 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.30

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.878 dex

Stellar density

7.050 g/cm³

Rotation period

31.18 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
252.00 parsec
Light-years 821.91 ly
V-band magnitude
16.86 mag
Voyager-speed travel 14,494,437 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.118.818.81B16.86V16.00Gaia15.93Kepler15.00TESS17.60Sloan g16.22Sloan r15.22Sloan i14.76Sloan z13.45J12.78H12.64K12.50W112.38W212.34W39.14W4

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

7.879 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-7.48 mas/yr

PM Declination

-2.49 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.266 · y = -0.587 · z = 0.765

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 294.36603° · Dec 49.91502°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.459° · 13.565°

Ecliptic λ, β

318.642° · 69.273°

HTM-20 index

299021203

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