Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.60 Earth radii
A mass of 3.18 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.24 g
An orbital period of 7.650 days
Semi-major axis 0.0840 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,144 K (871 °C)
Distance from Earth 1,757.35 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.252
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 30,990,889 years

Kepler-1743 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.60 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.143 R♃

Mass

3.18 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.010 M♃

Density

4.28 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.24 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.252

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

#584of 1176

top 49.6%

This planet

1.60R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-114 c 1.60 R⊕ Kepler-49 d 1.60 R⊕ Kepler-394 b 1.60 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1743 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.60	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.18	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	4.28	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.24	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	515.00	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 290035649

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2129407784218783488

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2129407784218783488

System

Kepler-1743

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.599 R⊕ · percentile 50 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.180 M⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 7.65 d · percentile 56 / cohort 1164

Distance 538.81 pc · percentile 49 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.252 · percentile 23 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

7.650 days

Semi-major axis

0.0840 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

77.52 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 7.65 Earth days (2.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0840 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.006 %

Duration

6.625 h

Impact parameter b

0.571

Rp / R★

0.007310

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,971.3311

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 55 ppm lasting ≈ 6.63 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.007310

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

7.550

Impact parameter (b)

0.571

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,971.3311

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.15600

Eq. Temperature

1,144K

(871 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

515.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.252

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Valizadegan et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2021 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1816 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1705 c · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1948 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-196 d · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1853 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1840 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1881 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1858 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1874 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1802 c · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1749 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1849 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: Kepler-1743

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,855 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.72 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.613 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.266 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.40

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.125 dex

Stellar density

0.023 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

538.81 parsec

Light-years 1,757.35 ly

V-band magnitude

12.06 mag

Voyager-speed travel 30,990,889 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.827 mas

Total Proper Motion

0.981 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

0.89 mas/yr

PM Declination

0.41 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.234 · y = -0.625 · z = 0.745

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.55236° · Dec 48.12626°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.693° · 15.071°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.202° · 68.715°

HTM-20 index

-338516212