Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2020

Kepler-1697 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1697, located approximately 808.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.26 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.12 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.34 g
  • An orbital period of 33.497 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.2008 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 630 K (357 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 808.12 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.497
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 14,251,195 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1697 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.26 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.112 R♃
Mass
2.12 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.83 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.34 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.497
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

#1159of 1176

top 98.5%

This planet

1.26R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1697 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.12317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.831.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.342.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0037.300.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158551360

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2102991776844251264

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2102991776844251264

System

Kepler-1697

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.260 R⊕ · percentile 1 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.120 M⊕ · percentile 3 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 33.50 d · percentile 93 / cohort 1164
Distance 247.77 pc · percentile 27 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.497 · percentile 72 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
33.497 days
Semi-major axis
0.2008 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
86.86 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 33.50 Earth days (9.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.2008 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.017 %

Duration

4.111 h

Impact parameter b

0.229

Rp / R★

0.011541

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,996.7522

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 169 ppm lasting ≈ 4.11 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.011541

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

61.340

Impact parameter (b)

0.229

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,996.7522

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.81000

Eq. Temperature

630K

(357 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

37.30

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.497

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-1697

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,682 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.772 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.747 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.536 dex

Stellar density

2.286 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-25.26 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
247.77 parsec
Light-years 808.12 ly
V-band magnitude
13.56 mag
Voyager-speed travel 14,251,195 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.414.614.61B13.56V13.36Gaia13.35Kepler12.72TESS14.20Sloan g13.28Sloan r12.99Sloan i12.85Sloan z11.76J11.29H11.18K11.07W111.14W211.03W39.35W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.007 mas

Total Proper Motion

21.902 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-10.04 mas/yr

PM Declination

-19.46 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.220 · y = -0.692 · z = 0.688

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.66333° · Dec 43.47138°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.441° · 15.048°

Ecliptic λ, β

301.394° · 64.997°

HTM-20 index

7906496

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