Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2020

Kepler-1702 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1702, located approximately 2,795.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.60 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.20 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.25 g
  • An orbital period of 18.501 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1275 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 555 K (282 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,795.61 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.529
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 49,300,642 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1702 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

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

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.529
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

#569of 1176

top 48.3%

This planet

1.60R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1702 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.20317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.281.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.252.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0022.400.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 164830907

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2105983066946463488

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2105983066946463488

System

Kepler-1702

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.602 R⊕ · percentile 52 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.200 M⊕ · percentile 47 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 18.50 d · percentile 83 / cohort 1164
Distance 857.14 pc · percentile 72 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.529 · percentile 75 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
18.501 days
Semi-major axis
0.1275 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.72 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 18.50 Earth days (5.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1275 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.042 %

Duration

3.179 h

Impact parameter b

0.224

Rp / R★

0.019147

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,982.1757

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 421 ppm lasting ≈ 3.18 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019147

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

44.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.224

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,982.1757

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.14900

Eq. Temperature

555K

(282 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

22.40

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.529

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-1702

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,093 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.726 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.850 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.24

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.646 dex

Stellar density

3.135 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
857.14 parsec
Light-years 2,795.61 ly
V-band magnitude
16.23 mag
Voyager-speed travel 49,300,642 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.316.816.75B16.23V15.77Gaia15.79Kepler15.20TESS16.45Sloan g15.74Sloan r15.51Sloan i15.38Sloan z14.41J13.96H13.96K13.82W113.90W212.57W39.27W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.139 mas

Total Proper Motion

12.124 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-6.75 mas/yr

PM Declination

-10.07 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.184 · y = -0.688 · z = 0.702

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 284.97248° · Dec 44.56748°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.731° · 17.254°

Ecliptic λ, β

297.580° · 66.579°

HTM-20 index

995367209

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