Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1749 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1749, located approximately 874.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.61 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.23 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.24 g
  • An orbital period of 14.534 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0956 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 420 K (147 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 874.75 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.673
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 15,426,222 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1749 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.61 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.144 R♃
Mass
3.23 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.23 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.24 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.673
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

#548of 1176

top 46.5%

This planet

1.61R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1749 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.23317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.231.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.242.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.007.340.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159389232

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2127463224886292224

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2127463224886292224

System

Kepler-1749

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.613 R⊕ · percentile 53 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.230 M⊕ · percentile 48 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 14.53 d · percentile 77 / cohort 1164
Distance 268.20 pc · percentile 29 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.673 · percentile 84 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
14.534 days
Semi-major axis
0.0956 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.07 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 14.53 Earth days (4.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0956 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.051 %

Duration

3.309 h

Impact parameter b

0.440

Rp / R★

0.021100

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,978.4264

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 511 ppm lasting ≈ 3.31 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021100

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

31.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.440

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,978.4264

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.35600

Eq. Temperature

420K

(147 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

7.34

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.673

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

Valizadegan et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1749

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,957 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.72 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.553 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.551 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.693 dex

Stellar density

1.052 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
268.20 parsec
Light-years 874.75 ly
V-band magnitude
14.95 mag
Voyager-speed travel 15,426,222 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.517.016.98B14.95V14.70Gaia14.69Kepler13.87TESS15.96Sloan g14.67Sloan r14.14Sloan i13.85Sloan z12.66J11.97H11.81K11.68W111.69W211.75W39.49W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.700 mas

Total Proper Motion

18.005 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.15 mas/yr

PM Declination

-18.00 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.243 · y = -0.657 · z = 0.714

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.29458° · Dec 45.56452°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.204° · 14.180°

Ecliptic λ, β

307.325° · 66.393°

HTM-20 index

1427607207

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