Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1669 c

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1669, located approximately 1,772.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.90 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.27 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.18 g
  • An orbital period of 1.609 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0228 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 958 K (685 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,772.48 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.289
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 31,257,599 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

2 siblings around Kepler-1669

Kepler-1669 c shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-1669 c this Super-Earth 1.90 4.27 1.609 958 2021
Kepler-1669 d Rocky Terrestrial 1.22 1.98 4.729 669 2023
Kepler-1669 b Sub-Neptune 2.78 8.15 9.512 530 2020

Kepler-1669 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.90 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.170 R♃
Mass
4.27 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.41 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.18 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.289
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#124of 1176

top 10.5%

This planet

1.90R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1669 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.27317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.411.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.182.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00199.280.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 169457234

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2073652546016392448

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2073652546016392448

System

Kepler-1669

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.901 R⊕ · percentile 89 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.270 M⊕ · percentile 81 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.61 d · percentile 9 / cohort 1164
Distance 543.44 pc · percentile 50 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.289 · percentile 34 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.609 days
Semi-major axis
0.0228 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.89 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.61 Earth days (0.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0228 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.073 %

Duration

1.568 h

Impact parameter b

0.104

Rp / R★

0.029533

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,011.9456

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 729 ppm lasting ≈ 1.57 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.029533

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

8.056

Impact parameter (b)

0.104

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,011.9456

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.04200

Eq. Temperature

958K

(685 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

199.28

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.289

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

Valizadegan et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1669

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,224 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

13.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.603 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.609 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.20

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.662 dex

Stellar density

3.541 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
543.44 parsec
Light-years 1,772.48 ly
V-band magnitude
16.47 mag
Voyager-speed travel 31,257,599 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.017.917.91B16.47V15.91Gaia15.94Kepler15.12TESS17.15Sloan g15.87Sloan r15.42Sloan i15.15Sloan z14.05J13.32H13.20K13.11W113.18W212.28W39.05W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.812 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.492 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.48 mas/yr

PM Declination

5.29 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.354 · y = -0.681 · z = 0.641

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.43038° · Dec 39.84788°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.472° · 6.908°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.679° · 59.197°

HTM-20 index

-1745764231

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