Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2020

Kepler-1689 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Kepler-1689, located approximately 959.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.95 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.80 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.89 g
  • An orbital period of 8.483 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0784 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 879 K (606 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 959.30 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.366
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 16,917,194 years

Kepler-1689 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.95 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.084 R♃
Mass
0.80 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.003 M♃
Density
5.17 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.89 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.366
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2020
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#381of 570

top 66.7%

This planet

0.95R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1689 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.9511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.80317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.171.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.892.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00149.300.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137218786

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2052740449026979584

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2052740449026979584

System

Kepler-1689

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.947 R⊕ · percentile 33 / cohort 570
Mass 0.799 M⊕ · percentile 29 / cohort 570
Orbital period 8.48 d · percentile 75 / cohort 567
Distance 294.12 pc · percentile 40 / cohort 566
ESI 0.366 · percentile 53 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
8.483 days
Semi-major axis
0.0784 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.50 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 8.48 Earth days (2.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0784 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.007 %

Duration

2.485 h

Impact parameter b

0.056

Rp / R★

0.007876

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.9684

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 69 ppm lasting ≈ 2.49 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.007876

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

26.240

Impact parameter (b)

0.056

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.9684

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.26700

Eq. Temperature

879K

(606 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

149.30

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.366

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Armstrong et al. 2021

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2021-07

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1689

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,731 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.50 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.996 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.023 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.15

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.451 dex

Stellar density

1.459 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
294.12 parsec
Light-years 959.30 ly
V-band magnitude
12.23 mag
Voyager-speed travel 16,917,194 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

9.114.814.49U13.10B12.23V12.11Gaia12.15Kepler11.68TESS14.85Sloan g13.94Sloan r14.52Sloan i12.85Sloan z11.07J10.78H10.71K10.67W110.71W210.87W39.10W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.371 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.123 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-11.12 mas/yr

PM Declination

0.30 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.287 · y = -0.726 · z = 0.625

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.57417° · Dec 38.65594°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.244° · 10.342°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.495° · 59.538°

HTM-20 index

2139605709

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