Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2020

Kepler-1692 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1692, located approximately 1,927.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.11 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1.42 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.15 g
  • An orbital period of 5.960 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0646 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 897 K (624 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,927.64 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.357
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 33,993,999 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1692 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.11 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.099 R♃
Mass
1.42 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.004 M♃
Density
5.68 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.15 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.357
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

#208of 570

top 36.3%

This planet

1.11R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1692 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.1111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001.42317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.681.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.152.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00153.480.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158324044

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2130641436264397568

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2130641436264397568

System

Kepler-1692

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 1.112 R⊕ · percentile 64 / cohort 570
Mass 1.420 M⊕ · percentile 58 / cohort 570
Orbital period 5.96 d · percentile 60 / cohort 567
Distance 591.02 pc · percentile 72 / cohort 566
ESI 0.357 · percentile 52 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.960 days
Semi-major axis
0.0646 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.03 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.96 Earth days (1.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0646 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.013 %

Duration

2.896 h

Impact parameter b

0.260

Rp / R★

0.010427

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,968.0069

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 129 ppm lasting ≈ 2.90 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.010427

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

15.870

Impact parameter (b)

0.260

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,968.0069

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10900

Eq. Temperature

897K

(624 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

153.48

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.357

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

Armstrong et al. 2021

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2021-07

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1692

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,146 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.10 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.866 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.870 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.36

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.502 dex

Stellar density

1.888 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
591.02 parsec
Light-years 1,927.64 ly
V-band magnitude
14.67 mag
Voyager-speed travel 33,993,999 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.416.416.40B14.67V14.50Gaia14.52Kepler13.95TESS15.14Sloan g14.42Sloan r14.25Sloan i14.16Sloan z13.18J12.79H12.66K12.44W112.52W211.98W39.43W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.663 mas

Total Proper Motion

19.813 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-15.19 mas/yr

PM Declination

-12.72 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.198 · y = -0.652 · z = 0.732

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.92418° · Dec 47.05371°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.673° · 16.906°

Ecliptic λ, β

302.873° · 68.570°

HTM-20 index

-1757754010

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